Jesus notes on Edgar Cayce

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Submitted by Peter on Sat, Jul 04, 2009

Jesus notes on Edgar Cayce

For as thou thinkest in thy heart, so will thy life be.

- from the transcripts of the Edgar Cayce readings

This brief quote I found among my papers from the time period I was visiting the Association for Research and Enlightenment. It was handwritten on a little scrap of paper. Compare it to a quote from A Course in Miracles below:

Let me not think that I can find the way to God if I have hatred in my heart. Let me not try to hurt God’s Son and think that I can know his Father or my Self. Let me not fail to recognize myself and still believe that my awareness can contain my Father, or my mind conceive of all the Love my Father has for me and all the Love which I return to Him.

I will accept the way You choose for me to come to You, my Father, for, in that, will I succeed because it is Your Will. I would recognize that what You will is what I will as well, and only that. And so I choose to Love Your Son. Amen.
- A Course in Miracles
(Lesson 246)

In the notes given to Helen Schucman and Bill Thetford during the scribing of A Course in Miracles, there were, naturally, some personal notes - reassurances, guidance, helpful thoughts and prayers, and some notes on historical characters. A Course in Miracles is A Course in Miracles without the extra notes and personal guidance given to Helen and Bill. For many people, A Course in Miracles is challenging enough without additional notes.

So, while I have seen the notes - and a passage about Edgar Cayce is among them - the notes are officially unpublished. From the first time I read A Course in Miracles, I knew I would write about it at some point. And this was long before I knew about anything about the notes that came during the scribing of A Course in Miracles. I think that the notes will be published eventually, but that will be done to enhance our understanding of the Course and how we got to this point in history. I will respect that the notes are unpublished and write a brief summary of the passage about Edgar Cayce.

Jesus appreciates the effort made by Edgar Cayce on his behalf.
The remedies are not for everyone. The remedies are not for general use.
Jesus finds humor in that Cayce's followers want to immortalize the work of Cayce, but says they are in need of editing. He said that He would make a better editor of Cayce's work, if the A.R.E. would give Him the job.
Cayce was unable to transcend the need for sacrifice. This is an aspect of the ego.
Cayce would not separate sacrifice from the Atonement. At the same time, Cayce understood that spirit is unaffected by sacrifice, so he focussed, to great extent, on the body.
Cayce experienced great strain and did not always believe in what he said in the trance states.
Cayce had a sense of unworthiness which he compensated for with religious grandiosity.

Your worth is not established by teaching or learning.
Your worth is established by God.
- A Course in Miracles

Many passages from A Course in Miracles can be mis-understood when taken out of context. Yet many passages, sometimes even a single line, can contain the whole message of the Course. The passage on Cayce is like that. The Course tells us that we need not sacrifice, nor give up any thing we believe is needful, but we never need an illusion. Giving up an illusion is not a sacrifice; it is trust in the inevitable wholeness that we are the Love and the Light of God.

Cure is a word that cannot be applied to any remedy the world accepts as beneficial. What the world perceives as therapeutic is but what will make the body “better.” When it tries to heal the mind, it sees no separation from the body where it thinks the mind exists. Its forms of healing thus must substitute illusion for illusion. One belief in sickness takes another form and so the patient now perceives himself as well.

He is not healed. He merely had a dream that he was sick, and in the dream he found a magic formula to make him well. Yet he has not awakened from the dream, and so his mind remains exactly as it was before. He has not seen the light that would awaken him and end the dream. What difference does the content of a dream make in reality? One either sleeps or wakens. There is nothing in between....

So, do we lay aside our amulets, our charms and medicines, our chants and bits of magic in whatever form they took. We will be still and listen for the Voice of healing which will cure all ills as one, restoring saneness to the Son of God. No voice but this can cure. Today, we hear a single Voice Which speaks to us of truth where all illusions end, and peace returns to the eternal, quiet home of God.
- A Course in Miracles
(Lesson 140)