“That force which rebelled in the unseen forces (or in
spirit) that came into activity, was that influence which has
been called Satan, the Devil, the Serpent; they are One. That
of REBELLION! When man in any activity rebels against the influences
of good he harkens to the influence of evil rather than the
influence of good. Will is given to man for the choice. As given,
‘There is set before thee (man) good and evil.’
Evil is rebellion. Good is the Son of Life, of Light, of Truth;
and the Son of Light, of Life, of Truth came into physical being
to demonstrate and show and lead the way for man’s ascent
to the power of good over evil in a material world. As there
is, then, a personal savior, there is the personal devil.”
In Western scripture we have the legend of the Sons and Daughters
of Man versus the Sons and Daughters of God. Cayce explains
that these were the self-seeking, rebellious celestial beings
battling with the God-centered, cooperating celestials. Both
groups began to incarnate in the Earth. Both spirits began to
manifest in matter.
For
a time, these two opposing influences counterbalanced one another’s
influences in the world. But, as even the Mayan legends tell
us, good was overcome by evil’s lure. The biblical statement
that “the Sons of God looked upon the Daughters of Men
and saw that they were fair; and took them wives of all they
chose,” indicates the fall of the well-intended celestial
beings, who were only attempting to counter the influences of
evil. This passage is found in Genesis, chapter six, along with
the only mention of the powerful mighty beings of ancient times,
the Nephilim. These gods of old lost their power as they succumbed
to the distractions of self-seeking and rebellion.
Cayce explains that those who pushed their way into matter
willfully, not in cooperation with God and Nature, “were
called the Sons of the Earth or Sons of Man.” He explains
that “the Creative Forces, God, then made the first man
-- or first God-man.” This physical being “was the
beginning of the Sons of God.” Cayce continues: “Then
those souls who entered through a channel made by God -- not
by thought, not by desire, not by lust, not by things that separated
continually -- were the Sons of God, the Daughters of God.”
Implied in Cayce’s readings is that souls were not necessarily
trapped in one group or another, but could move between them
by using their wills to change their ways.
In today’s world, Cayce warns that there is “only
a very thin veil between sublime and ridiculous, thinner between
good and evil.” He teaches, as do so many others, that
the real judge of an action or thought is the motivation behind
it. If the motivation is self-seeking, self-gratifying, self-exalting,
then no matter how good the action or thought may appear, it
gives strength to the forces of evil. He also stretches our
understanding by teaching that the “desire to do good
and to be good is not man’s problem alone, but to be good
FOR SOMETHING, to be good as a purposefulness! But doing good
for Good’s sake; doing good because it brings contentment,
it brings harmony, it brings peace, it brings associations that
create in the hearts of the associates JOY and HOPE and the
LONGING for the greater knowledge of the SOURCE of good”
(Cayce’s emphasis).
In closing, Cayce channels this wonderful piece of wisdom:
“Love, mercy, and justice eschew evil; and keep thy heart
SINGING all the while.”
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