READING 364-5

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 105th St. & Ocean, Va. Beach, Va., this 17th
day of February, 1932, in accordance with request made by those present.
Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis, Gray Saltar,
Hugh Lynn and L. B. Cayce.
Time: 11:45 A. M. Eastern Standard Time.
TEXT
1. GC: You will have before you the material given through this channel on the Lost Continent of
Atlantis, a copy of which I hold in my hand. You will answer the questions which I will ask
regarding this.
2. EC: Yes, we have the information as given respecting the continent Atlantis. In the
considerations that may be had concerning such information, many are the questions that must
naturally arise in the minds of individuals who would consider same in any way or manner.
However, will a very close check be kept upon those who evince an interest, these will be found
to be those who occupy in the present some influence innate or manifested from their
experience or sojourn under or in that environ. As has been given, this would be well to do; for
to the analytical or to the research character of mind, there will be little that may escape the
attention of such a mind - when spiritual or psychic, or occult, or those kindred subjects are
approached - as to how quick there is the desire, that expression of "I know it, but don't know
how to tell it, will be in that individual's or entity's feeling, and expression - when one may be
obtained at all. They will immediately become the dreamer! Try this!
3. Ready for questions.
4. (Q) Explain the information given regarding Amilius [?], who first noted the separation of the
peoples into male and female, as it relates to the story in the Bible of Adam and Eve, in the
Garden of Eden giving the name of the symbols Adam, Eve, the apple, and the serpent.
(A) This would require a whole period of a lecture period for this alone; for, as is seen, that as is
given is the presentation of a teacher of a peoples that separated for that definite purpose of
keeping alive in the minds, the hearts, the SOUL minds of entities, that there may be seen their
closer relationship to the divine influences of Creative Forces, that brought into being all that
appertains to man's indwelling as man in the form of flesh in this material world. These are
presented in symbols of that thought as held by those peoples from whom the physical recorder
took those records as compiled, with that gained by himself in and through the entering into that
state where the entity's soul mind drew upon the records that are made by the passing of time
itself in a material world. As given, these are records not only of the nature as has been termed
or called akashic records (that is, of a mental or soul record), but that in a more material nature
as set down in stone, that was attempted to be done - HAS been attempted to be done
throughout ALL time! WHY does man NOW set in stone those that are representatives of that
desired to be kept in mind by those making records for future generations? There are many
more materials more lasting, as is known to many.
In the records, then, as this: There are, as seen, the records made by the man in the mount, that
this Amilius [?] - Adam, as given - first discerned that from himself, not of the beasts about him,
could be drawn - WAS drawn - that which made for the propagation OF beings IN the flesh, that
made for that companionship as seen by creation in the material worlds about same. The story,
the tale (if chosen to be called such), is one and the same. The apple, as 'the apple of the eye',
the desire of that companionship innate in that created, as innate in the Creator, that brought
companionship into the creation itself. Get that one!
In this there comes, then, that which is set before that created - or having TAKEN ON that form,
able of projecting itself in WHATEVER direction it chose to take, as given; able to make itself
OF that environ, in color, in harmony, in WHATEVER source that makes for the spirit of that
man would attempt to project in music, in art, in ANY form that may even be conceivable to the
mind itself in what may be termed its most lucid moments, in its most esoteric moments, in its
highest animation moments; for were He not the SON of the living God made manifest, that He
might be the companion in a made world, in material manifested things, with the injunction to
subdue all, BRING all in the material things under subjection - all UNDER subjection - by that
ability to project itself IN its way? KNOWING itself, as given, to be a portion OF the whole, in,
through, of, by the whole? In this desire, then, keep - as the injunction was - thine self separate:
OF that seen, but NOT that seen. The apple, then, that desire for that which made for the
associations that bring carnal-minded influences of that brought as sex influence, known in a
material world, and the partaking of same is that which brought the influence in the lives of that
in the symbol of the serpent, that made for that which creates the desire that may be only
satisfied in gratification of carnal forces, as partake of the world and its influences about same -
rather than of the spiritual emanations from which it has its source. Will control - inability of
will control, if we may put it in common parlance.
5. We are through for the present.
Copy to Self
Copy to File
Copy to Ass'n
BACKGROUND
1. Subject of 364-5 - "Atlantis."
2. See 364-1 through 364-4.
REPORTS
1. 2/17/32 4:00 P.M. See 364-6, a continuation of information sought on Atlantis as the basis for
EC's talk before the Norfolk Groups of A.R.E. on 2/19/32.