Glenn D. Kittler - Edgar Cayce on the Dead Sea Scrolls

EDGAR CAYCE

ON THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS

EDGAR CAYCE

ON THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS

BY GLENN D. KITTLER

UNDER THE EDITORSHIP OF

HUGH LYNN CAYCE

Copyright 1970

by the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.

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Revised Edition

1st Printing, July 2018

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A.R.E. Press

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ISBN-13: 978-0-87604-786-6

Original First Printing, December 1970

Edgar Cayce Readings 1971, 1993-2007

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Cover design by Catherine Merchand

Authors Note: For the sake of clarity and pertinence, several of the extracts from the Edgar Cayce Life Readings quoted in this book have been edited slightly and thus are not verbatim.

Contents

Preface

T he discovery in 1947 of an Essene community on the northwest coast of the Dead Sea seemed to have been an archaeological confirmation of Edgar Cayces psychic readings given over a period of more than eleven years prior to that time. Retrocognitive psychic ability seems to have been exercised in almost two thousand psychic readings by Edgar Cayce. Nowhere is it more exciting than in the descriptions of the abandoned community now known as Qumran.

This community is identified as the place where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were written, copied and finally hidden in the caves around the Dead Sea.

Qumran would not be so significant as a focus of psychic information were it not for the fact that it has been well established that the community was in operation for at least a hundred years prior to the birth of Jesus and for sixty-eight years after his death. It is situated in the geographic center of locations of highly significant events in His life. These include the baptism by John the Baptist, just a few miles away, and the forty days in the wilderness, not far from an easy route from Jerusalem to Jericho. The community has been the subject of much theological and scholarly debate as to how much Jesus knew about this place, the inhabitants and their work on the scrolls.

The Edgar Cayce readings suggest that there were close connections between many of Jesus intimate associates (Zebedee, John, James, Andrew, John the Baptist, etc.) and the Essene community. One cannot help wondering, since Edgar Cayce was correct about the location of the community eleven years prior to its discovery, could he also be right about Jesus early associations with the Essenes?

For some of you, this may be the first introduction to Edgar Cayce. Who was he?

It depends on through whose eyes you look at him. A goodly number of his contemporaries knew the waking Edgar Cayce as a gifted professional photographer. Another group (predominantly children) admired him as a warm and friendly Sunday school teacher. His own family knew him as a wonderful husband and father.

The sleeping Edgar Cayce was an entirely different figurea psychic known to thousands of people, in all walks of life, who had cause to be grateful for his help. Indeed, many of them believed that he alone had either saved or changed their lives when all seemed lost. The sleeping Edgar Cayce was a medical diagnostician, a prophet, and a devoted proponent of Bible lore.

Even as a child, on a farm near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where he was born on March 18, 1877, Edgar Cayce displayed powers of perception that seemed to extend beyond the normal range of the five senses. At the age of six or seven, he told his parents that he was able to see and talk to visions, sometimes of relatives who had recently died. His parents attributed this to the overactive imagination of a lonely child who had been influenced by the dramatic language of the revival meetings, which were popular in that section of the country. Later, by sleeping with his head on his schoolbooks, he developed some form of photographic memory that helped him advance rapidly in the country school. This gift faded, however, and Edgar was only able to complete his seventh grade before he had to seek his own place in the world.

By the age of twenty-one, he had become a salesperson for a wholesale stationery company. At this time, he developed a gradual paralysis of the throat muscles, which threatened the loss of his voice. When doctors were unable to find a physical cause for this condition, hypnosis was tried but failed to have any permanent effect. As a last resort, Edgar asked a friend to help him reenter the same kind of hypnotic sleep that had enabled him to memorize his schoolbooks as a child. His friend gave him the necessary suggestion, and once he was in a self-induced trance, Edgar came to grips with his own problem. He recommended medication and manipulative therapy that successfully restored his voice and repaired his system.

A group of physicians from Hopkinsville and Bowling Green, Kentucky, took advantage of his unique talent to diagnose their own patients. They soon discovered that Cayce only needed to be given the name and address of a patient, wherever he was, to be able to tune in telepathically on that individuals mind and body as easily as if they were both in the same room.

One of the young MDs, Dr. Wesley Ketchum, submitted a report on this unorthodox procedure to a clinical research society in Boston. On October 9, 1910, The New York Times carried two pages of headlines and pictures: Illiterate Man Becomes Doctor When Hypnotized. He was not illiterate, but it made for a better headline. From that day on, troubled people from all over the country sought help from the wonder man.

When Edgar Cayce died on January 3, 1945, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, he left well over 14,000 documented stenographic records of the telepathic-clairvoyant statements he had given for more than six thousand different people over a period of forty-three years. These documents are referred to as readings. The readings constitute one of the largest and most impressive records of psychic perception ever to emanate from a single individual. Together with their relevant records, correspondence and reports, they have been cross-indexed under thousands of subject headings and placed at the disposal of psychologists, students, writers, and investigators who still come, in increasing numbers, to examine them. In fact, the Edgar Cayce database consists of an astonishing 24 million words!

A foundation known as Edgar Cayces A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., 215 67th Street, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451) was founded in 1931 to preserve these readings. Today, the Cayce organization continues the legacy begun by Edgar Cayce with an undergirding mission to help people change their lives for the betterphysically, mentally, and spirituallythrough the ideas in the Edgar Cayce material. Further information about Edgar Cayces A.R.E., as well as activities, materials and services is available at EdgarCayce.org.