Mary Ellen Carter - Passage to the Millennium: Edgar Cayce and the Age of Aquarius

WHO WAS EDGAR CAYCE?

EDGAR CAYCE, unwitting seer and clairvoyant, touched millions of lives with his innate spiritual wisdom and his uncanny healing visions.

Born in 1877 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Edgar Cayce had a seventh-grade education, yet was able to repeat complex and technical medical jargon when under a trance. In this state, he was said to heal many of the people who came seeking his counsel with his recommendations for medical treatment. Cayce soon began to talk about spiritual notions such as Atlantis, reincarnation, dreams, astrology, and more. He would also predict some of the more astounding events of the twentieth century, such as World Wars and the Great Depression.

The Washington Post wrote: His words have inspired faith in spirituality, which for many people is more powerful than science. Called the sleeping prophet and Americas greatest psychic, Cayce, who died in 1945, may have been the first to usher in what is now known as the New Age Movement. More than fifty years after his death, his work continues to influence our lives in powerful new ways.

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C ONTENTS

For my grandchildren, Jon, Julia, and Sean

A CKNOWLEDGMENTS

T O MY DAUGHTER J OANNA and my son Jim for their loving support for me while I wrote this book, I owe my greatest gratitude. I am especially grateful to Jim for reading the manuscript in its early phases and for giving me good helpful advice throughout.

I look back to 1991 when I acquired better understanding and concern for the Russians than I had before, thanks to Grigori Polunov, a Russian literary agent living in the United States. He had become interested in the Edgar Cayce readings. I appreciate that Jeanette Thomas, Administrator of Records for the Edgar Cayce Foundation, put him in touch with me. I never met him in person, but at his request I sent him a copy of Passage to the Millennium. His reaction was: Russia needs this book! I think it was, in part, because it includes Edgar Cayces amazing predictions that Russia was being born again. Because he was living in America and had seen how freedom and democracy really do work, he yearned to bring to his native land Cayces message that could help heal his people. But, sadly, he died before he could see it happen. I treasure the enthusiasm he had for this book and the valuable and revealing perspective he brought to bear.

I have drawn on many sources covering the events of the centurys last two decades. Throughout the writing of the book, I was fortunate to hear speakers appearing before audiences in Virginia Beach and Norfolk with diverse points of view yet on the same wavelength: an American who is teaching young democracies to work; a Russian professor who spoke of glasnost; an American professor of Russian history; an American authority on the United Nations; a German professor speaking on the fall of the Berlin Wall. And there were from throughout the world a number of outstanding journalists and writers, historians, religious leaders, and spokesmen and -women who made their statements at various times in the recent past, without which Cayces prophecies would not have been validated. I thank them for their contributions to this project.

A N EW O RDER

It is also understood, comprehended by some, that a new order of conditions is to arise; that there must be the greater consideration of each individual, each soul being his brothers keeper. (3976-18)

T HE C AYCE READINGS, CENTRAL to this book, predicted the fall of the Soviet Union. Subsequently, we saw communism fall in the majority of nations. Since 1932, other major political, social, and economic conditions were addressed by Cayce, referring to deeds of consciousness of world leaders and of ordinary men and women, to truth or error that motivated them, as well as astrological influences. It was only in the last decade of the twentieth century that we could evaluate how accurate were his predictions, or how his words could be of help today.

Changes Cayce previewed are not only political but also religious in character. Throughout time, in fact, all political and social change has grown out of understanding in the hearts of a few leaders of what our familiar religious values and concepts represent. In the past, this occurred seldom, as history recounts just a few enlightened groups such as the Essenes two thousand years ago ushering in and nurturing the advent of the birth of Jesus Christ. Another major period was the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when Western civilization broke from monarchy to independence. It was a natural outgrowth from biblical teachings about mans freedom under God. In the 1990s, we have seen many nations freed from oligarchy and communism.

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Events that brought great changes in the twentieth century in hindsight can be seen as passage into the new millennium. Many people born ninety years ago have lived through two world wars and the Great Depression in the early years to see the rise and fall of communism in much of the world; friendship between the United States and Russia; slavery give way to freedom; improvement in race relations; progress toward peace in the Middle East and other nations, all evincing growth in consciousness by masses of people. Can we look forward to the continuation of that work of the human heart and mind as we go into the twenty-first century?

In 1938 Cayce spoke of a new order of conditions to arise. He described it as based on Christian principles and standards in the interests of all people.

However, by the 1920s there was, according to irrefutable historic documentation, already in place a new order that was not in the interests of anyone but a few wealthy and powerful men while their fellowman suffered through two world wars and the Great Depression of the 1930s. That new order was created by a ruthless invisible government reported to have been in existence since 1910, controlling all banking institutions and thus all financial conditions. Unbelievable as it seems, the group is said to this day to orchestrate wars and financial booms and busts for the benefit of the power elite.

Outwardly we have a Constitutional government, states James Perloff in his book Shadows of Power. But regardless of who is in the White House, Perloff states, Within our government we have another body a bureaucratic elite is sure our Constitution is outmoded all strange foreign policy agreements may be traced to this group who are going to make us over to suit them. He calls it a legitimate mafia and says this secret government promotes the idea of globalism in order to build a new international order serving only those elite factions.

According to a growing number of authors, this new world order is instigated and operated by various agencies based on humanistic notions that have impeded spiritual progress since Adam. Its aim, say these authors, is one world under socialism, which will cut down Americas sovereignty and that of all other democracies and lead ultimately to a world dictatorship. It was characterized in 1913 as the invisible government by the money power by Congressman Charles Lindbergh, Sr., one of the foremost opponents of the Federal Reserve Act.