2067-12

TEXT OF READING 2067-12 F 56 (Teacher, Quaker, Spiritualist)

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Date: 8/25/1943 Sex: F Age: 56 ReadingID: 8647

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 25th day of August, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - Dr. [2067], Associate Member of the Ass”n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.

[Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. (Notes read to and translated by Jeanette Fitch.)]

Time of Reading 3:35 to 4:00 P. M. Eastern War Time. …, New Hampshire.

GC: You will have before you this life existence in the earth plane of [2067] - born January 6, 1887, in Boston, Mass., and the earthly existence of this entity as Dorothy Manley in Salem during the witchcraft days. You will give a biographical life of the entity in that day and plane of earthly existence, from entrance - and how - into the earth’s plane, and the entity’s departure; giving the development or retarding points in such an existence. You will then answer the questions she submits, as I ask them, concerning her present work in writing and also details as to that period.
EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as [2067].
In the experience of the entity in Salem during the witchcraft days, the entity was the daughter of Edward Manley and Edna Shoemaker Manley. [GD’s note: Steno misspelled name Maury instead of Manley and it was not corrected in proofreading at the time. I am making the correction.]
At the age of twenty-seven the entity had begun teaching school to those people in the province near Salem, some natives, some that had been brought to the colonists. There had been those experiences of individuals having direct communication with the witches, or those various experiences had by the children. Then there were the experiences of the entity itself with noises, with unusual writings that had come under the entity’s notice; papers not being there when they had been left in the entity’s desk or even in its own chamber.
Part of these experiences were pranks, part were real manifestations. The entity accepted them all as manifestations and rejected the attention of one dweller Parks [?]. This caused the greater disturbance with the entity’s activities. For, with the combination of disturbances, the entity suffered those persecutions that were given by the leaders in those periods; and the entity was placed on the stool and dipped. Then the entity was an outcast by the father, a very stern man - who is the entity’s own son in the present and he’s just as stern and cussed in the present. These have been experiences for the entity to meet; to conquer self first as it did in those experiences and - in letting yourself go - for, you must ever meet yourself.
There was much to be gained by the entity, but stubbornness, self-centeredness, was something to be dealt with; and is a part of the entity’s experience in the present.
Be honest with yourself if you’re not with anyone else! Don’t keep fooling yourself, as you did then. These were a part of the experience.
The activities in being an outcast brought same to the entity. And only in the associations with the families of some of the natives, as well as those questioned as to their sincerity in their activities, would the entity carry on in becoming a helpful influence; teaching the natives and the children of the poor people, during the latter portion of the entity’s activities in the earth.
Who do I know in this life that then persecuted me? Who that were my friends?
When the entity was thirty-six, the entity was married to one of those peoples not of her own people but of those combinations of those settlers then. This continued to keep the entity as an outcast. In self the entity gained; in the eyes of the people, not much. Hence admonition, “Let not thy good be evil spoken of.” This is as much an injunction to individuals in the present as it was to those in olden times.
What were my special psychic gifts and were my family in sympathy with me?
The activities during that period brought many troublesome times until there were greater problems politically, as well as in racial and other affairs that came upon those people.
Please describe my personal appearance and character as Dorothy Manley.
But the entity suffered most through those periods as the teacher being ducked twice for the lack of consideration, or for not giving those tenets or truths for proper relationships - between those that were pranks and those that were real.
Please give name and tell about my lover and what he thought of my “dippings”.
This same lack of consideration can in the present oft make for disturbing influences in the experience of peoples.
Will you describe some of the “dipping” scenes, telling my behavior, those present, and how conducted?
Know in whom you believe. Know in what you believe. Know the author of thy belief. How few stop to know that! We say we believe - but what? Who is the author of thy salvation? Who is the author of thy faith, of thy hope, of thy aspirations? Man? What man? Only he, who has made the test in giving himself in the service of his fellow man.
What great truths did I learn and share as Dorothy Manley?
Ready for questions.
(Q) Please describe my seal, giving interpretation. (A) We haven’t the seal here.
Whom was I accused of bewitching, what were the circumstances, and did I ever as Dorothy Manley harm anybody?
(Q) Please give any special advice as to my present work as teacher, lecturer, writer that I may better fulfill God’s purpose for my life. (A) In the activities that have been indicated for the body. The abilities are here. Get self out of the way and let the principles of that ye would present be first and foremost and not Dr. [2067]. These may appear hard words, but until self is eliminated - as a teacher, as a lecturer, as a writer - that you purpose to present can have little effect on others.

You can teach, you can lecture, you can write. But SELF must be eliminated.

Were the witches in Salem and other parts of America burned or only hung?
(Q) Please comment on my book, SON OF MARY, (founded on Cayce Readings), and can you suggest a publisher? (Holt not interested.) (A) Much might be said about it. As we find, portions are good, portions are mediocre, some is very bad.

This as we find may be presented through several different channels. There will necessarily have to be found those interested sufficiently to suggest the changes as would be necessary for consideration. Any press in England would accept it, with minor changes but this is out of the question. As we find, The New Age, would accept, with minor changes.

What is the explanation of the Salem witchcraft, how did it start and what purpose did it accomplish?
Did I have anything to do with Ann Putnam and her “Circle Girls” - what?
(Q) Please make suggestions for my next book on the Salem Witchcraft period, (Dorothy Manley incarnation), and suggest a possible publisher? (Q) We haven’t any publisher for we haven’t any book - as yet! This, is too far-fetched, but begin where you are, and you may add to that in such a way as to have something that will be constructive. Little of what may be called history is acceptable in such books. That which is creative or helpful in such books may be presented so as to bring helpful experiences to many. These would be worth interpreting, but it will first need necessarily a plan, an outline, and then the following of this or the filling in. A very good love story may be put in this one, if you want it to be a bad one on yourself. The idiosyncrasies of the father - you have it very well in your son - describe him and you’ll have your Dad alright.

The hardships of your mother - give yourself and your own hardships in the present, then get yourself out of the way, and you will have a good character of Dorothy in that experience.

Did so-called witches use black magic and were they in league with the devil, causing people to be ill or die?
(Q) What were my dates and birthplace as Dorothy Manley? (A) Put these where you choose. We have just given as to what the dates were.
(Q) What was my education? Church membership? (A) That as would be called the Church of England. The education was sufficient for a teacher in that particular period, which was only reading, writing and arithmetic; or what would be called in the present a mediocre high school education.
Were children then obsessed by evil spirits as witches?
Did witches have power to control, and kill animals?
(Q) Did I have brothers and sisters, and what were their names? (A) You had brothers and sisters, Jim, Tom, and Harry, Anna and Joe.
Were there “devil marks” on witches, or were they moles or birthmarks?
(Q) Have I met any of the Manley family this time? What are their names now? (A) Meet them in various portions of the land. We haven’t them - here we didn’t look them up! Would you want these, or do you want yourself?
Did discarnate entities impersonate living people and leave marks - bites, pin pricks, wounds on bodies of their victims as reported in courts?
We are through for the present.

[Questions not answered:

Were most the people who accused the witches, sincere, or did they wish to get even with them or gain property by their death?
What was the book the witches tried to get people to sign in?
Is the astral world with its obsessing entities in better control now than in the old witchcraft days? What has been done?
Were most people clairvoyant and clairaudient then, and did the killing of these people set the development of spiritual insight back for centuries?
Do you wish to recommend any authentic books on Witchcraft or that period?

Mrs. C, please eliminate any of these that have been answered in the body of the Rdg.]

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 9/6/43 Dr. [2067]‘s ltr. to EC:

Dear Edgar Cayce:

I received the Reading on the Salem witchcraft period and and am enclosing cashier’s check in payment for same.

You must be very, very busy these days, and I appreciate your allowing me even part of a period for the Reading, 25 minutes. You had scheduled it from 3:30 to 4:30, but perhaps power gives out these days that are so crowded with work. There were only a few of the much needed questions answered, and very little told - perhaps that is all that could be given at the present time. I am wondering if the rest of the questions could be slipped in sometime at the end of some other life Reading, to finish mine up, so I can have material suitable for a book.

I wish a point or two could be cleared up that are contraindications. In the long, first Life Reading, the Reading said that I was Dorothy Manley who lost her experience early because of frequent dippings which she suffered for a just cause - and passed in a high fever. This present Reading says I am the daughter of people by the name of Maury, that I was dipped but twice, and was married at 36 years of age, and apparently lived some time after this. Would they call 36 young in those days? However perhaps some day more will be given to be of help.

Are the Readings these past days as good on the average as they used to be, do you think? Does an extra amount of work affect them much? I hope you are keeping up your strength and not overdoing. I will be down South in Georgia this year. I think I gave you my address, … College, …, Georgia.

As soon as possible I will try to get the Essene copies to you. If you could have let me know in the summer earlier that you had lost the copy, I would have had it ready for you. It struck me at an impossible time with the material in the mail to a new destination. If you will get the editor’s or publisher’s name who is interested, do you wish me to send it directly to him, and a copy to you for your files? It is really enough for a small book - this material.

Well, I am finishing up my work of closing the place and getting off. I hear [1387] is spending a vacation at the Beach, helping. That’s nice and you are fortunate to have such fine help. I pray for you daily and the work. When you get a breathing spell, let’s have a word from you if possible.

Very sincerely, [2067]

[Handwritten note]: Your last letter was missent to N.J.

New Jersey instead of N.H. which delayed it.

R2. 9/11/43 EC’s ltr. to Dr. [2067]:

Thank you for yours of the 6th with enclosure. Am very sorry that you are so badly disappointed with the reading. Am making another appointment for you, when can get it in which at present will not be until 5 the afternoon of Aug. 5-1944; that is possibly out of the question, but is the the very best we can possibly do at the present time. Whether the reading takes 10 minutes or 50 cannot help it

certainly haven’t any thing to do with the length of time is taken are having some of the longest periods we have ever had in the history of readings and better results in 90 percent of the cases than ever before.

Hope you have a most pleasant place at the school in the South and a very lovely place for you, have met some of the people from that school - pretty strict sect for old South customs.

We were most fortunate to have Miss [1387] here for a while she and Miss [2487] sure were a great help to us can tell you that.

Thanks a lot - sorry to have been such a disappointment for you but what comes is all we can do about it.

With every good wish from all

[signed] Edgar Cayce

R3. 10/1/43 Dr. [2067]‘s ltr. to EC:

About the book SON OF MARY - as good as it must be, using the results of your work, it will doubtless find a hard time getting a publisher. The Harper people said that it was not along the line of the material they were publishing or had planned to publish this fall, so the book came back, immediately to go to Dutton and Company, where it is now. If you have any ideas about favorable publishers I wish you would let me know. I am sure that as soon as it were published it would go like wild fire, like the NAZARENE, since it is that type of book - but until a publisher becomes interested, it just will sit around.

I am glad you are keeping well, at least reasonably so. I pray for you and your work several times a day, and I hope you also will remember me in prayer and the book. Yes, you must have many calls that you cannot answer, since the work of the Association is growing so rapidly.

That was a marvelous write-up in the Bulletin, the last one

the one by Evelyn Horton. I must write her to tell her how much I appreciated it. It is just what a fellow-teacher here is interested in - she has been asking me about the work, having seen your biography advertised - THERE IS A RIVER.

Yes, it is very lovely here. My classes are very large this year - the college has about doubled its number and is growing rapidly. It is one of the best colleges there is, and I am so much pleased with the opportunities that are mine.

Let me hear from you when you have time to write. You did put me down for the rest of my Reading, for the Association work, next August 25, did you? You wrote last time you could do that, but it would be nearly a year ahead. I will appreciate it if you will do that, since I do want a good Reading on that Salem witchcraft time, as Dorothy Manley.

Kindest regards to all. Can I do anything special to help with the work?

R4. 10/13/43 EC’s ltr. to Dr. [2067]:

Today, we are in receipt of “SON OF MARY”. I haven’t seen this yet. Very soon, we will have 2 or 3 people here who are supposed to be writers. Would you consider either of these people taking your data and using this for a background for a book or what do you wish us to do with your manuscript? If handled that way, I think you can sell it, for there are publishers coming along with these people. They are interested in this. I would like to make you some money for what you have done, but I do not want to do anything you do not want done. I would have to have your permission for either one of them to do anything with it.

Yes, you have an appointment in August, but it is the fifth, in the afternoon. Let me hear about the book as these people may be here next week. I hope that you will find everything satisfactory there and trust that it will be most pleasant. Thanking you, I am,

Sincerely, Edgar Cayce

R5. 10/16/43 Dr. [2067]‘s ltr. to EC:

As to the SON OF MARY - I want you to use your best judgement and the judgement of the Readings in regard to that book also. It is a good story with wonderful material all the way through - your material - the work and the arrangement in putting the book together only are mine - two to three years of hard work - but I have been thrilled with the material - I know others also will be thrilled and I want them to have the benefit of it. If you have some professional writers who can put the material I have in better form, so that it will reach the world, then I say, go ahead. We want it to sell, to get out to do good. You know that it is difficult to find a publisher for this kind of material, even if God Himself should write it. The publishers, most of them, even won’t look at such a book. But in faith I have written it, and two different people with second sight have seen the book in print and seen the color of the cover of the book - purple and gold. Whenever a book of mine is seen in print, even before it is written, I know it will be published. I leave the matter in God’s hands, and trust to your good judgement, my friend. Do as you see fit with it - I have done my best. I have been told by writers that there are sections of my Son of Mary as good as anything that has ever been written - for example the chapter on the birth of the Master. See what you think about it, and the rest also. I want your frank opinion after you have read the book. It can be changed, you know, in any way that is necessary. I have tried to follow the Readings whenever I could, and perhaps have included too much for an ordinary story for most people. The information, however, is invaluable. The world ought to eat it up, even more than they did THE NAZARENE. Ash has out another book called PAUL you may know - just published.

Please let me hear how you get along with the publishers and the publication. Best regards to all. I pray for you constantly.

Ever sincerely, [2067]

R6. 4/28/44 Dr. [2067]‘s ltr. to EC:

My life is full of speaking to many thousands of people this year, of receiving membership in a National Journalistic Order, Honorary, and of many other details. My water color paintings have been exhibited publicly several times and are much appreciated. And so life goes. I will be leaving here next month for New Hampshire.

Kindly remember me to Hugh Lynn, Mrs. Cayce and all the friends. I would like to hear from you when you get time to write, that I might know how you and the work are going, since I never receive any bulletins.

Very sincerely, [2067]

R7. 7/15/44 EC’s ltr. to Dr. [2067]:

Dr. [2067] …, N.H.

Dear Dr. [2067]

Thank you for yours of the 9th. We are most [more?] than just busy. Our Congress was quite a success. Everyone pronounced it one of the best that we have ever had.

I am not quite equal to all the problems that such brings about in such small quarters, at least. So before the next one, we hope some arrangements can be made in this direction, if it is at all possible.

I trust that you are really enjoying the summer. You are getting a great deal of mental relaxation and spiritual help from your work this summer.

Yes, quite a number have shown interest in the Essene booklet and I am in hopes that it will do some good along the way.

The appointment we have for you is for the afternoon of the 5th of August. Now, whether I am going to be able to keep this, or not, Doctor, I don’t know. I am finding that I am going to have to rest. If I don’t get back in time, please know it is not because we are skipping it but because physically I can’t help myself. I hope that we will be able to do it, so please send the questions as I believe it is to be a question reading. I am sure you have read enough of the readings to know the type of questions. So be very careful in preparing your questions. Have all of one type together. Don’t ask direct questions unless you want to be bawled out, for the information as you well know is no respecter of persons. That is one of the reasons why we are convinced there must be other sources than what may be a personal thing. It has rejected even some members of the board that personally was most anxious to have and yet the information has said, “no”, and I haven’t found out why.

Thank you for writing. I hope things are well with you and with every good wish, I am

Sincerely, Edgar Cayce. [EC/wi]

R8. 7/20/44 Dr. [2067]‘s ltr. to EC:

…, New Hampshire

Dear Edgar Cayce:

Thank you so much for your good letter just arrived last night. I am anxiously looking forward all the year to the August 5 Reading you promised me. I do hope you will be able to give it at the regular scheduled time. You would not disappoint a needy soul after all this long wait, if you can help it, will you? If you just can’t help it, will you work me in at the first possible moment free, as this Reading is a very important one to many people as well as to myself - because it concerns the work that reaches many.

Enclosed is a card - please say that you got my enclosed questions O.K. which I am sending you herewith. I have arranged them as you suggested, all on one topic together, and I have asked as a mere suggestion, if Mrs. Cayce could tell the Forces at the beginning what the Reading is about

the clarification of the Dorothy Manley or Maury Reading, general questions and writings, and then if they will permit, my seal and its interpretation. She will know if this can be done. Also if they get to not wanting to answer a certain type of question, she will omit the rest of the type and go on to something else.

I am glad you had a good Conference - perhaps after the war you will be able to get more help and there will be a greater interest in helping the Association.

I have had great interest shown in pamphlet on the Essenes and your material - a man from the Library of Truth wrote me among others for further information.

What do you think about a pamphlet some time later on Christ’s education abroad? Most people are very much interested in this and SON OF MARY has some material that could be put in a pamphlet and gotten out before perhaps the books gives a larger view of the Life of Christ.

Have you ever thought of coming to New Hampshire for a free vacation with perfect restful conditions, peace, quiet? I would be delighted to have you folks spend your vacation with me. I have a big house unused and a nice garden - all on a beautiful lake with boats, and among the mountains, away from everybody, but accessible if you desire. I would meet you by car from bus or train.

I hope Gladys can take the notes for the Reading and transcribe them - she did not before, I understand - and maybe things got a bit mixed. I don’t know but maybe my condition was not good then and that influenced the Reading.

I will be here the afternoon of August 5 hoping and praying that you can keep the appointment for Reading - I am in … Cottage, near …, New Hampshire.

Yes, the summer is a busy one, working hard all the time, long hours - but it is good. I have time to discuss your book THERE IS A RIVER with interested neighbors, also the work of the Association. I have a family coming from Melrose to ask me further questions about spiritual things in August

they want to know more about your work, etc. Some camp counsellors also here are interested through the Essene pamphlet, among others. The Quaker people here are interested.

Kindly remember me to all the friends, especially Mrs. Cayce and Gladys. Much love to yourself,

Sincerely, [2067]

[Handwritten note] Questions enclosed:

QUESTIONS

Mrs. Cayce, will it be possible at the beginning of Reading to ask that the Reading be a clarification of the Dorothy Manley or Maury incarnation, with general questions on writings and other problems, and if permitted the seal and its interpretation?

WRITINGS

Could a pamphlet be written and published successfully for the Association on the early education of Jesus in Egypt, Persia, India, using the type of material used in the SON OF MARY book? Advice, remarks.

For the Rainbow Garden book I am now doing, please give me anything on the significance or meaning of color, interpreting the rainbow in reference to the qualities of a complete personality - red, strength, passion, green healing, meditation, etc.?

If not completely answered, please give spiritual meaning of five primary colors - purple, royalty, blue divinity - that right?

Can you make suggestions for Rainbow Garden and tell of a possible publisher?

Can I write a successful book of chapel talks to young folks?

Recently I sent to Rosicrucian Magazine an article on REBIRTH IN JESUS’ TIME basing material on James Pryse’s Greek translations of Scriptures. Do you know of his reliability, and would you comment on my article?

To what extent did Jesus and the disciples teach rebirth or reincarnation?

Could you definitely [tell?] me what parts or incidents in SON OF MARY were good and what poor? It would help me with my writing. Association has book.

When and under what conditions will this book, Son of Mary, be published?

Do you think my book, Scientific Parenthood, could be rewritten, leaving out the Kosmon Bible references, etc. so as to be published successfully? Advice?

Could I rewrite my book, MYSTERIOUS EXPERIENCES OF CHILDREN, so as to be a helpful book for mothers, treating of fourth-dimensional experiences? Advice.

Could I make my book TWIXT LOVE AND A GHOST into a publishable detective story?

How can I become a more successful writer and a better teacher?

GENERAL QUESTIONS

Can you tell me what my seal is and its meaning?

Please explain definitely how I fool myself, as the last Reading said, and how I get too much of self into my teaching, writing, lecturing and how to remedy it?

Please advise me about the New Hampshire place as to its service to humanity. My father’s passing seems near - should I keep the place inspite of high taxes or get a little place later in California or Florida for old age where I could raise food and not freeze?

Can you tell me anything about the influence of my deceased mother and my daughter […] upon me at present, or about their work now?

DOROTHY MANLEY OR MAURY INCARNATION

Did I live in 1692 in Salem as Dorothy Maury, and was my present oldest son, […], my father then?

What were the “cussed” characteristics my father then manifested and my resulting hardships?

Would you please describe a dipping scene, my appearance, what they did to me, who was present, what ceremony, how long?

Did I lose my life early as the “misunderstood maiden” or did I marry at 36 and finally later die in high fever as result of dipping?

Please describe my husband - appearance, work, nationality, sympathy with me?

Please describe my psychic gifts, the messages on the papers brought to me?

What great truths did I learn and share as Dorothy Maury?

Did I see children and others who were bewitched who had pinpricks and marks left on their bodies by discarnate forces? Is this true? Were animals killed?

On an average are there about 300 years between my reincarnations, and was Dorothy Maury my last to the present

if not what was I before this?

R9. 7/26/44 EC’s ltr. to Dr. [2067]:

Dr. [2067] …, New Hampshire

Dear Dr. [2067]

I have yours of the 20th, and I know what I am going to say will be awfully disappointing, but at the present time, I can’t help it.

I am leaving tomorrow, to be gone from the office for, possibly, two weeks, and that will be through the period set for your reading. As soon as I return, we will try to work in your appointment, but it will probably not be before next year. I am sorry for this, but I would rather disappoint a few people, than all people for all time. I am just about run down, and have to recuperate in some way. But we will try to work yours in as soon as possible.

If you prefer, we will be mighty glad to return your membership fee, but we can’t do anything else.

I, of course, don’t like to question anyone’s approach to information of this kind, but it seems to me, Dr. [2067] there are many questions in your list here that could be answered through other sources, rather than undertaking to get it through a source of this kind. And the questions are so scattered! Can’t you have them all on one subject, in a more uniform manner? This is not fortune-telling, Dr. [2067]; it is a universal consciousness, if it is anything at all. See if you can’t change these a little bit. I think you could get much more out of it.

Hoping, though, that we can be the means of real service,

Sincerely, Edgar Cayce [EC:gp]

R10. 7/29/44 Dr. [2067]‘s ltr. to EC:

…, New Hampshire

Dear Edgar Cayce, Your letter of July 26 just arrived. I rejoice that you are able to take a vacation and shall feel that I am helping you have a good time and get rested, though my disappoint is great, in the postponement of the Reading. Of course you have to have a rest and all should know that - it is only our deep appreciation of what comes through you that makes us sorry at our great loss - but I see your point of view, am not at all selfish in desiring the all-important information contained in the questions.

Perhaps you don’t understand how far-reaching the questions are and how important not only to me but hundreds of others who contact me and learn of your great work. If it were just myself I would forget it. No, I don’t want any membership fee back, I want only the Reading when you can fit me in, realizing its importance.

I am learning all the time and am glad of your suggestions, but I can’t see how I can revise the questions to make them all on one subject when the needs are on several subjects equally. These questions, and I have them out again - are like what the UNIVERSAL FORCE OR CONSCIOUSNESS has answered before - the same type were answered in all my Readings. Would you try again and when any question is ignored, then pass it up? I put a day in just wording the questions after a year’s thought on them. I want to know about my writings, one or two of which are with you - and for the Association - those to be written are on the material the Readings told me I should write, so I need to have those questions clarified. They are not fortune-telling, and I have purposely avoided asking any such questions. As to my seal - that has been given to many and why not to me? I made three divisions to my last page of questions - writings, general questions, and the incarnation of Dorothy Manley. Can you suggest any better arrangement? If you would rather call it a Vocation Reading and work the other few questions in at the end, that would be done. That would be the questions as I have them arranged on the writings first.

Dear Friend, I need help on these things and have done the best I can. Can you help? This is to be a clarification Reading with the questions.

Another point, I teach the Colonial Period of American Literature and have carefully studied the witchcraft period in America, the time when I lived. I need to have the questions answered that I have suggested, since I can’t find the information in any books. I try to be very considerate and thoughtful and saving of everybody, but myself. If I were able to see you I could explain to your satisfaction that every question is necessary and carefully thought-out. However, I am helpless and await your good graces. I hope I may always be helpful. I use all that comes through you for the service of humanity. You wrote as though you thought I was selfish and did not understand. If I could get the answers anywhere else I certainly would do so, for I realize how overworked you are. But I appreciate you, and hope the vacation may be a gorious one. I wish you could come up North where it is so cool and beautiful in the mountains by the lake - you could have two whole houses to yourself. The latch string is always out.

Very sincerely, [2067]

R11. 8/16/44 EC’s ltr. to Dr. [2067]:

Dr. [2067] …, New Hampshire

Dear Dr. [2067]

I beg your pardon for such a long time in replying to yours of the 29th. I have, as you possibly gathered from my letter, been away from the office for some little time. I was with Mr. Sugrue for some of the time, and I think we got some matters straightened that have been needing attention.

I was gone nearly two weeks, and came home feeling mighty bad. Have been home nearly a week, but haven’t been able to get back to work.

I am very sorry that you had to be put off, because it will be a long time before we will be able to get to you again.

I appreciate very much your sincerity and interest, and I do hope very much that we can carry through and get your questions in just about as orderly a form as possible in answering all those that you have indicated.

It will be some little time before we can get to give you another appointment, but will do it just as soon as possible. First, I have to get myself in shape, before I can help anybody.

Thanking you very much for your help and your interest, and with every good wish from all here.

Sincerely, Edgar Cayce [EC:gp]

R12. 1/21/47 Dr. [2067]‘s ltr. to HLC:

Dear Hugh Lynn,

I was glad to get your letter of December 30th. I did not answer at once to thank you for letting me know that my book, SON OF MARY was not lost, because I was reviewing a very interesting book for Wing Anderson, author of PROPHETIC YEARS, 1947-1953. I enclose a copy of the review I sent him, in case you might be interested in part of it at least.

As you know, Wing has had two or three other books that have been the most popular books on prophecies, having sold upwards of 300,000 copies. I think this one will also go like the wind. He could have sold many others if he had them printed - but paper has been short during the war.

I am as busy as ever with many irons in the fire, painting, poetry, school-teaching, trying to find a warm climate in which to settle for my next permanent position, etc. - it snows and is zero weather here much of the time - which thing I do not want.

So you have a son four years old - how nice! I had not realized that time had gone so fast. All my three children are marriaged and have children - all returned from the war. Kindest regards to Sally.

All best wishes for the New Year.

Do you yet know of any psychic who will take your father’s place? do you have anybody in mind?

Very sincerely, [2067]

[Handwritten note]: Have you ever contacted your father since his passing? At present I am reading one of Dr. Carl Wickland’s book GATEWAY OF UNDERSTANDING published in 1934 in which he tells of Houdini’s return and explanation and that the code that was given to his wife has been worked out perfectly. A very sorrow man is Houdini for the way he treated mediums!

R13. 2/3/47 HLC’s ltr. to Dr. [2067]:

Dr. [2067] …, Oregon

Dear [2067]

We were glad to have your letter of January 21st containing the review of Wing Anderson’s “Prophetic Years”. Due to our disagreements over whether or not reincarnation is a fact, Anderson has been a severe critic of ours for sometime. I do think however he is doing a tremendous amount of good in many directions.

I am familiar with Wickland’s book which you mentioned. Did you know that Anderson bought the plates for one of Wickland’s books after his death, and that he is also indirectly connected with the distribution of “Oahspe”?

No, we do not have anyone as yet who can fill my father’s place in giving readings. Our work is based on the tabulating, indexing, and extracting of material from the readings which he left. Naturally, we are concerned and interested in the development of psychic powers in any individual and our [are] constantly on the lookout.

A great many mediums have reported communications from Edgar Cayce. Unfortunately, many of them are extremely conflicting which is to be expected under the circumstances. You will hear more about this in our publications later.

I always look forward to hearing from you so do keep in touch with us.

Regards from all.

Sincerely, Hugh Lynn Cayce [HLC/tm]

R14. 12/16/47 GD’s note: She wrote of her work in helping to start a new college in Calif.

R15. 12/48 Routine mailing was returned marked ADDRESS UNKNOWN.

R16. 8/15/63 GD’s note: The original of her manuscript, SON OF MARY, is still in A.R.E. vault.

R17. Dr. [2067]‘s manuscript:

THE MYSTIC SOCIETY OF ESSENES by [2067], Ph.D.

The Essenes were a unique and fascinating group of men and women whose chief purpose in life was to become temples of the Holy Spirit that they might receive a special revelation from the Almighty, and thus be the means of bringing the promised Messiah into the world. History declares that their desire was fulfilled, that Jesus was born in the fold of their organization, and that He and John the Baptist, with many other Biblical characters, were members of the Essene communities both in Palestine and in other lands.

Since this group of mystics, prophets, healers, and miracle workers contributed so much to the origin and spread of Christianity in their making of history and the fostering of its course, it seems somewhat surprising that intelligent people know so little about this branch of the Great White Brotherhood. The Freemasons, however, find pure Christianity in Essenism and consider it to be the most important fraternity the world has ever seen. Dating back at least to the time of Moses and designated at various times and places as Nazarites, School of the Prophets, Hasidees, Nazarenes, Essenes, Therapeutae, Brethren in White Clothing, Contemplative Ones, Ministers of Peace, Friends, and the Pure and Silent Brethren, this mystic group not only prepared for the birth of the Messiah, but distinguished itself in many other ways. The Essenes were the first to proclaim the equality of all mankind and to denounce slavery; they were the first socialists to organize a community high above the standards of their times; they were also the first communists to encourage the ownership of all things in common, as well as the first mystic sect in all Jewish history.

Although the purpose of this paper is to give briefly from ancient and modern sources the principal historical facts concerning this society of mystics, it is of interest to note in passing that much additional and confirmatory material on the Essenes may be found in the Life Readings given during the past forty years by Edgar Cayce of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc. Through the Life Readings several formerly declared to have been Essenes have been located, and among them are some who were vitally concerned with the preparations for the birth of Jesus, with His protection during His flight into Egypt, with His training in the Essene community to which He and His parents belonged, and later with his education in Essene schools abroad. These records bear out in detail the historical references brought down through the centuries by such authorities as Josephus, Philo, Pliny, Solinus, Prophry, Epiphanius, Eusebius, the Talmud, Midrashism, the Bible, and many other witnesses both ancient and modern.

Although historians differs as to details they are generally agreed upon the more important facts concerning the Essenes. For example, they agree that this pioneer mystic order was of “dateless antiquity” as Pliny declares. The Talmud speaks of the brotherhood as “the holy community in Jerusalem”, while Strabo mentions the “Essenes in Heliopolis with whom Plato and Eudoxus consulted”. Josephus considers them “the oldest of ascetics,” and and tells us that they believed in reincarnation, in the resurrection, the the communication with angels, and says that it was from “Egypt that their doctrines spread abroad.” For a time Josephus was a member of the Order of Essenes. Philo calls the mystic brotherhood “champions of virtue, a race by themselves more remarkable than any other in the wide world.” Epiphanius, famous church historian of the fourth century, declares that “Jesus joined the Essenes”, and that “for their healings they sometimes used a Book of Remedies attributed to King Solomon.” Every Jew, it seems, according to Josephus, had to belong to one of the three sects, the Sadducees, Pharisees, or the Essenes. He notes that while Jesus spoke scathingly of the scribes, Sadducees, and Pharisees, he never uttered a word against the Essenes, although as a member of the Brotherhood with His cousin John His teaching differed in some details from that of the Essenes. And again, Solinus affirms that “the Essenes who differ from all other nations in their marvelous constitutions, have according to my opinion been appointed by divine Providence for this mode of life. Money they know not, and connubial pleasures they have renounced, yet they are the richest of all men.”

To turn for a moment to representative modern historians, we find Dean Prideaux in writing on the descendents of the Essenes in a work entitled THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS CONNECTED, notes that the Essenes absolutely antedated the Holy Scriptures, and absolutely condemned slavery which both the Old and New Testaments allowed. He believes that this proclaiming of freedom and equality will be recognized unanimously by the civilized world as one of the glorious features of Essenism anticipating the spirit of Christianity and the philosophy of the twentieth century. Dr. Graetz in his book on the HISTORY OF THE JEWS, says “The Essenes first proclaimed the kingdom of heaven”, that “John the Baptist lived the life of a Nazarite, belonged to the Essenes, took up his abode with the other Essenes near the waters of the Jordan, awaiting penitents. Those penitents who were baptized joined at the same time the Essenic Order. When the Jewish nation would confess its sins and bathe in the Jordan the Messiah would not tarry long in His coming.” The historian Ginsburg, in his book THE ESSENES, THEIR HISTORY AND DOCTRINE says “The purpose of Jesus, the Essene, was to effect a great moral revolution. From the age of twelve to thirty He was in the Essene colonies and conceived the plan which He intended to carry out. There He was educated until He was sent out by His Order to effect a great moral revolution. His object in life was to bring about a reformation in Judaism by the means of Essenism, and He Himself was a pliant tool in their hands, although He taught a somewhat modified Essenism.” It is C. D. Ginsburg who declares, “It cannot be doubted that our Savior Himself belonged to this holy brotherhood.” And again, one of the most painstaking, scholarly, and historical researches, that by A. A. Schutz on THE ESSENES, compiled from the numerous records of the Literary and Philosophic Society of Liverpool in 1896, finds the above statements, together with many others that will be mentioned, confirmed in the ancient documents written in Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic.

Several of the references declare that the Essenes were a branch of the illuminated brotherhood or Great White Lodge which had its birth in the country of Egypt during the years preceding Amenhotep the Fourth, Pharaoh of Egypt and the great founder of the first monotheistic religion, who encouraged and supported the existence of a secret brotherhood to teach the mystic truths of life. The several mystic schools of Egypt which were united under one head constituted the Great White Brotherhood, but branches of these schools assumed different names in different parts of the world, in accordance with the language of each country and the peculiarities of the general religious and spiritual thought of the people. In Old Testament times, for example, the Essenes were known as the Nazarites or seers of the School of the Prophets; in Engeddi and Alexandria the members of the Brotherhood assumed the name of Essenes or Brethren of the White Clothing, while in Greece they were known as Therapeutae or healers or physicians.

For many centuries before the dawn of the Christian Era, the Essenes, as active bands of workers, maintained two principal centers, one in Egypt on the banks of Lake Maoris, and the other in Palestine at Engeddi near the Dead Sea. The branch in Palestine had to contend with the depotism of the rulers of the country and the jealousy of the priesthood. These conditions forced the Palestine group to hold themselves in greater silence and solitude than they had been accustomed to in Egypt. Before they moved from their small buildings and sacred enclosure at Engeddi, to the ancient buildings on Mount Carmel, their principal activity seemed to be the tanslation of ancient manuscripts and the preservation of such traditions and records as constituted the foundation of their teachings. When they came to change their location their greatest problem was the secret movement of their manuscripts. Fortunately they succeeded in preserving the rarest of the manuscripts that came out of Egypt, together with their ancient traditions, stories, and teachings. It is from these that we derive most of our knowledge regarding the Essenes and the Great White Brotherhood. It is from these documents that we learn that from one of the holy women set aside, as a possible mother of the Messiah, the Savior would be born and within an Essene community. They expected Him to be a reincarnation of the greatest of their past leaders. The doctrine of reincarnation was not only an established belief among these mystics, but also among the most orthodox of the Jewish people and of all peoples during the Old and New Testament times. The Bible declares time and again the truth of reincarnation. The Essenes believed that the greatest among them were the greatest because of previous preparation, previous existence, and previous attainments. They naturally looked for the great Master to come out of the past, and as He did with the words upon His lips, “Before Abraham I am.” Through their highly evolved knowledge and intimate psychic contact with Cosmic Consciousness the Essenes were well informed of coming events. They kept continually before them the Scriptural prophecy, “For among thy brethren I shall raise one who shall guide my people.”

The meaning of the mysterious word “Essene,” the characteristics of this secret brotherhood, a picture of how they lived, what they believed and thought, together with their absorption into Christianity is a story of intense interest to all modern students of mysticism and sacred literature. Before we can properly understand and appreciate the history and real story of the birth and life work of the Master Jesus, we must have an understanding of the ancient organizations and schools which contributed to the preparation for His coming.

Since the term “Essene” was not popularly known, only the learned knowing it, it is easy to account for the lack of references to the Essenes in most of the popular histories or writings of the time. The Essene attire was so distinctive and unique that among the populace they were often known as “the brethren in white clothing”, for after initiation each member adopted a robe of white composed of one piece of material, such as the “seamless garment” worn by the Master Jesus. Silence seemed to be the motto of the Brotherhood. When they did speak they were well trained in the value of vowel sounds and the use of their voices in incantations. They were soft-spoken in conversation and were often known as “the soft-speaking men.” Those who were called “the healers” or “physicians” spoke softly to their patients using certain vowel sounds without any evidence of a formula. They often performed the greatest of cures by the simple laying on of hands or by instructing the patient to retire to the silence of his home while the cure was concluded in a psychic manner. Some historians claim that the word “Essene” comes from the Egyptian word “kashai” which means “secret”. There is a Jewish word of similar sound, “chsahi” meaning “secret” or “silent” and this word would naturally be translated into assaios or “Essene”, denoting “secret” or “mystic.” Even Josephus found that the Egyptian symbols of light and truth are represented by the word “choshen” which transliterates into the Greek as “Essene”. A branch of the organization established by the Greeks translated the word “Essene” as being derived from the Syrian word “assaya”, meaning physician, into the Greek word therapeutes, having the same meaning. While most of the members of the Essenes were healers or physicians, the organization was devoted to many other humanitarian practices besides the art of healing, and not all of its members were physicians in any sense.

There are twenty or more explanations of the mysterious term, deriving the word Essene from holiness, piety, the mysterious, silent, reticent ones to those endowed with the gift of prophecy, or performers of the law, the stout or strong and pure race. Epiphanius declares that the Essenes borrowed their name from Jesse, the father of David, and were called Jesseans. By others they were known as “seers”, “puritans”, “the retired”, and some thought the name was derived from “essa, a town situated beyond Jordan.” Still others thought the word was derived from the Chaldee root “to be strong”, “bound together or associated”, so-called because of their strength of mind to endure suffering and to subdue their passions. Again, they were known as “observers of the law of purity and holiness”, “the reticent ones to whom the scrolls were entrusted.” Philo’s dictionary of Hebrew names gives the meaning of “Essene” as “those in silence”; still other possible meanings include “blameless ones”, “mystics whose secret lore was given in a whisper”, “sin-fearing”, “men entrusted with the administration of alms”. The Essenes had a chamber in the Temple where they deposited their gifts of charity in secret, whence the respectable poor drew their “support in secrecy”. From these Essenes the “Gate of the Essenes” in Jerusalem derived its name. They also had in every city for their charity a special chamber for their charity box, so that money could be deposited and taken in secret - a thing that could only be done upon the presumption that the money belonged to all alike. Each city had its administrative body consisting of its best men who took charge of the collection and distribution of charity and who established hospices in various communities for the care of the sick, especially during epidemics of famine or disease. These places were called “Bethsaida”. We find in this feature of their work the origin of the hospices and hospitals which became well-known some centuries later. A special staff of workers was connected with these places and were called hospitalers. The Essenes likewise had their rescue homes in various communities, and at the entrance of most cities they had a place called “a Gate” where strangers or those in need of something to eat or of guidance would be cared for temporarily.

They call themselves “ministers of peace”, “friends”, and stood for peace in every way. The Biblical words of Jesus, “Agree with thine adversary on the way”, were literally carried out by them. In any disagreement with strangers they would gladly pay any price rather than enter into an argument or have any strained relationships. For this reason they were well thought of by other sects even though their religious practices were severely criticized. Some called them “the pure-minded” who fitted themselves in every way to speak God’s name. The Essenes claimed to possess, from the founders of the Synagogue, the correct pronunciation and the magic spell of the Holy Name by which they could achieve miracles as did the men of old. Like other Hebrew proper names, the name of God is more than a mere distinguishing title. It represents the Hebrew conception of the divine nature or character and of the relation of God to His people. the Name represents the attributes which He bears and which are revealed through His acts to His people. Any new manifestation of His interest or care gives rise to a new name. Even to make mention of Yahweh’s Name is to assert confidence in His strength. The Lord said, “My Name is in him”. God’s Name excites certain emotions. The forty-two letter Name of God is Azilut or “Animation”. The Cabbalists added the forty-five letter Name which is equivalent in value to the sentence referring to Yahweh, “What is His Name”, found in Proverbs 30:4. The numerical value of the letters is counted. A combination of God’s seventy-two-letter Name appears in the Urim and Thummim, consisting of the names of the twelve Patriarchs and the twelve Tribes of Israel. When the Urim and Thummim were consulted in regard to any matter, the divine Name lit up the letters which were brought into relief or into such a combination as to make the answer to the question asked intelligible. Creation is said to have occurred by the manipulation of the sacred letters forming the divine Names. The Essenes used the word “god” in their mystic prayers and rites and had a voluminous esoteric literature on these matters. They felt the need of being absolutely pure, truthful, honest, upright, virtuous, chaste, and charitable in their continual purification of the soul. Magic power was known only to the initiated. Their mysteries made them cognizant of the names of the angels, the angelic world, and of employing its ministry. The constant purification and the study of their prophetic writings gave these “pure-minded ones” the powers of prediction. The same mystic writings revealed the remedies in plants and stones for the healing of the body. It should be emphasized that communication with the angels and the secret traditional literature with its teachings concerning mysterious remedies are frequently referred to in apocalyptic literature. For example, in the Book of Enoch and in the Book of Jubilees there is much about communication with angels and of the “seers” who received angelic instruction and revelations. In the Book of Jubilees the angels are distinctly represented as teaching Noah all “herbal remedies for diseases.” This knowledge is also claimed to have been given to Moses. Undoubtedly the BOOK OF REMEDIES ascribed to Solomon which the Essenes used contained much of this earlier revelation. The seamless white robe worn by these “pure-minded ones” was also a symbol of inward purity, a freedom from the distracting, degrading influence of matter, and a result of higher fellowship with the Divine.

But whence came these Essenes? It has been suggested that these teachers and preachers of the secrets of the new and deeper phases of religion were found at different times under various names, that in the Old Testament times, the Essenes mentioned in the Book of Judges are called the Nazarites; in Kings they are called the School of the Prophets; in the Maccabean times they were called the Hasidees. During this period Jewish theosophy, until then the spiritual diversion of a chosen and select few, became the popular passion of whole groups of people. The Jewish group rose to full tide in the midst of this strange and curious brotherhood later known as the Essenes. Scholars have declared that these Mystics of the White Clothing were the first systematizers and practitioners of an occult science which later went by the name of Cabbalah. They have interpreted their name to mean “those who are engaged in secret things.” It was in the time of Christ that this unbroken line of interpreters of the veiled truths of spiritual realities became known as the Essenes. They claim Mosaic origin for their brotherhood. Even Abraham, “the humble one”, and all doers of works of benevolence learned it from God, their Father in heaven, so tradition has it; thus the brotherhood may antedate Moses. The Israelites under Moses were driven out by Amasis I, founder of the eighteenth dynasty, and with this event materialism superseded the things of the spirit. After this expulsion from Egypt, the mystic Shepherd Kings gathered in a place named Avaris and remained there for a time, the Egyptians not being able to dislodge them. Later they passed through the wilderness into Syria and into a country now known as Judea where they entered a city afterwards called Salem and where much later Melchizedek bestowed upon Abraham the mystic rites of the Order later known as the Essenes. Many centuries afterwards this same city was known as Jerusalem. Thus we note that the Essenes are “ageless, of dateless antiquity” as Pliny tells us - “thousands of years they existed before” his time. Some historians claim that the ancient Order went by its new name “Essenes” during the second century before Christ. History mentions them in the days of Johathan, the Maccabean, B.C. 166. Later in the reign of Aristobulus I, B.C. 106, they are mentioned in connection with the prophecy concerning the death of Antigonus uttered by Judas the Essene, together with the statement that up until that time no prophecy of the Essenes had ever failed - nor has any prophecy of their failed since, so far as is known. Again, Ewald’s Jewish History, among other histories, states that “the Essenes, or the people who left the great community to live a holy life with the permission and under the direction of the law, were to be found in Israel from the remotest times and were formerly known as Nazarites.”

Although historians differ among themselves in details, they are generally agreed that the essential characteristics of the Essenes included their conviction that fate governs all things, their absolute confidence in Jehovah’s will being manifested in whatever comes to pass, although free will is not denied; their unqualified belief in prophecy and the ability to see coming events; their belief in preexistence or reincarnation; their uniformly holy and unselfish life; their abstinence from visiting the Temple or in taking part in bloody sacrifices; their unbounded love of virtue and their contempt for earthly fame, riches, pleasure; their industry and temperance, the latter including a vegetarian diet and abstinence from intoxicants; their modesty and simplicity of life; their contentment of mind and cheerfulness of temper; their love of order and abhorrence of even the semblance of falsehood; their benevolence and philanthropy; their love for the brethren from whom they never concealed anything, and their following peace with all men; their hatred of slavery and war; their aversion to taking oaths or to swearing or to anointing with oil; their tender regard for children, and reverence and anxious care for the aged; their attendance on the sick, and readiness to relieve the distressed; their investigation of plants and minerals for healing, their miraculous cures, and the perishing of many of their secret doctrines when they were absorbed into Christianity; their humility and magnanimity; their firmness of character and ability to subdue their passions; their heroic endurance under the most agonizing suffering for righteousness sake, and their cheerful looking forward to death as releasing their mortal souls from the bonds of the body to a state of bliss with their Creator. All these qualities have no parallel in the history of mankind. No wonder that the Jews of different sects, the Greeks, the Romans, Christian historians and pagan writers all alike lavish the most unqualified praise on this holy brotherhood. Very remarkably do these “Mystic Ones”, these “Contemplative Men” exemplify the lessons which Christ, whom they are said to have sent out from their Order into the world, propounds in the Sermon on the Mount beginning with the Beatitudes.

Even Herod the Great could find no fault with the “Brethren of the White Clothing” and showered many favors upon them, and even excused them from the taking of oaths, even the oath of allegiance. They gained favor with the King of Judea because of their exactness in prophecy. History states that there was a certain Essene named Menahem who was celebrated not only for his uprightness but also for the foreknowledge of the future. When he once met Herod as a boy going to school, he addressed him by the name of “King of the Jews”. Herod thought that Menahem did not know him, or that he jested, and so reminded him that he was of common origin with no chance of becoming king. But Menahem smiled on him most friendly and clapped him on the back with his hand, saying, “Thou wilt, nevertheless, be king and will begin thy reign happily, for God has found thee worthy of it. Remember the blows Menahem hath given thee as being the symbol of the change of thy fortune. For this assurance will be salutary for thee when thou wilt love justice and piety toward God and equity toward thy citizens. However, I know that thou wilt not be such a one, for I can perceive it all. Thou wilt obtain an everlasting reputation, but thou wilt forget piety and justice. Thou wilt not be concealed from God, for He will visit thee in His wrath for it, towards the end of thy life.” Herod, it seems, paid very little attention to the Essene’s prophecy at the time, as he had no hope of its fulfillment. But soon afterwards when advanced to the dignity of king, he ordered Menahem to come before him. He regarded the Essene as being endowed with higher powers than ordinary mortals, gave him his hand, and from that time on continued to honor the Essenes.

History abounds in the fulfilled prophecy of the Mystic Order. Judas, the Essene, was another example. One day in the Temple surrounded by his pupils whom he initiated into the apocalyptic art of foretelling the future, he saw Antigonus pass. Judas prophesied a sudden death for him at a definite hour on a certain day, in a very special place - all of which occurred as predicted. Likewise, Simon, the Essene, probably the one mentioned in the second chapter of Luke, was a very holy man whose prophecies also came true, among many others. So holy were the members of the Essene communities that they developed not only exactness in prophecy, but also magnetic personalities, accompanied, of course, by clean bodies, clean habits, clean raiment. Moreover, they developed such beautiful auras that on some occasions these auras became visible to the profane.

History informs us that of all the sects of the ancient days, the Essenes were the most exclusive. They usually located their secret societies in small towns or on the border of the desert apart from the crowded hives of humanity. There in communities of small villages outside the walls or limits of practically every city where they existed, they waited patiently, yearning for “the kingdom of God eternal in the heavens”, as they fed the fires of their devotion in the fellowship or worship of their mystic Deity. In the Essene community each member had his own little house and garden. Marriage was not forbidden among them, as was commonly supposed by many historians. Their ideals concerning marriage, however, were very high and only those who were well-mated and whose mating was approved by the higher officials were permitted to marry. The most advanced groups, however, those who took the highest degrees, refrained from marriage. “Some”, as Jesus explained, “made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake.” Women were permitted to become associate members of the Brotherhood, and in a few cases were allowed to enter the early grades of study of the work. The Essenes did not consider women to be inferior mentally or spiritually, but the Essene branch of the Great White Brotherhood was an organization of men to carry on man’s work throughout each community. But sisters, mothers, and daughters of the men in each Essene community were permitted to be a part of the community. Those of the women who were not married, and who did not care to marry, often adopted orphan children as their own, and in this way carried on a form of humanitarian work for the organization. There were no servants, of course, for servitude was unlawful

each household was cared for by its own members. The Essenes apparently agreed that civilization decayed in proportion to the number of servants or slaves, and that the fall of a civilization is due not only to inequalities in the civilization, but to the fact that the people in the upper classes do not experiment or work with their hands, but delegate all physical work to servants, and thus fail to advance.

The Alexandrian community of Essenes lived in scattered houses near enough to afford mutual protection when necessary, but not too close to disturb the solitude which was so greatly prized by these “contemplative ones.” Each house contained a chamber devoted to prayer and meditation. These “silent ones”, “seers”, “healers” during the week lived and worked apart and meditated in silence, but on Saturday they prayed and ate in common. Their so-called feasts where no flesh was served and only cold water was drunk (especially those held on the eve of Pentecost), were famous and formed a contrast to Greek revels. At these feasts the philosophical discourse was the chief feature. This was followed by hymns and by antiphonal and joint singing with choral dancing in imitation of Moses and Miriam at the Red Sea. The Essene physicians treated their charges by keeping them quiet, free from anxiety and fear, and by giving them rest and good cheer and the benefits of medicinal help found in plants and stones. Though interested in the welfare of the state, the Essenes despaired of the reality of the Kingdom of God under the existing political situation. For them, the Kingdom was not to be established through political or ecclesiastical institutions. It must be revealed from God out of heaven. He would send to them His Chosen One, whom He had selected from the foundation of the world, and He would be the center of a great quiet peaceful kingdom of spirits.

There was at the time an inward distress in men’s hearts at the wide-spread materialism, and a despairing struggle in Jewish life for something better. Decaying Judaism attracted attention and awakened the apprehension of the thoughtful men of the day - such men as Cicero, Tactitus, and Josephus who often spoke of the facts of their decadent times. Both Judaism and paganism were in the last stages of decay. Rabbis were talking of the coming of a deliverer. The popular idea, not the Essene, was that this deliverer would sweep the legions of Augustus from their land, marvels would be accomplished, and armies would descend from heaven, fight and overcome Rome. At the touch of God’s winds white flour would drop from the ripened heads of wheat like manna of old. From a single grape, wine would be drawn as from a cask. Jerusalem would become greatly enlarged and miraculous buildings would be erected. There would be no more sickness or pain or anything to mar the happiness of the new kingdom. Expectation was rife among the Semetic races, while the cry of the pagan was voiced by Seneca, “Ah, if one might only have a guide to truth.” The Essenes knew that the fullness of time was near. Hebrew religion, Greek wisdom, Roman politics had failed, and in failing had prepared the way for the coming of Jesus, the Nazarite or Essene.

The beliefs and customs of the Essenes were so closely linked together that in their communities their conduct was a reflection of their convictions. They considered that they could reach perfection only through a gradual growth in holiness brought about by strict observance of the Levitical laws contained in the Pentateuch, mortifying the flesh and lusts thereof. Thus they believed they would be brought into closer communion with the Holy One of Israel. Strictness in enforcing the rigid Mosaic laws and Levitical purity ultimately compelled the Essenes to withdraw altogether from the society of their Jewish brethren, to live apart from the world and apart from any one who did not follow their strict manner of life and thus would contaminate them. The great fear of coming in contact with anything impure that would hinder their spiritual communion with their Creator caused certain branches of the Essene Order to abstain from marriage. These looked with pity upon their weaker brethren who could not be “like the angels of heaven, neither marrying nor given in marriage.” These weaker ones were allowed to take wives under certain restrictions, but, as has been noted, they could never advance to the highest orders of the brotherhood, for they were not among those who were willing to become “eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven”, as Christ expressed it. Since historians declare that celibacy was the rule of the Essenes, the ranks of the brotherhood were necessarily filled with recruits from the Jewish community at large, and by children who were educated most carefully and were taught the practices of the order - it was believed that of such the kingdom of heaven was being built.

Every adult candidate had to pass through a novitiate of two stages extending over a period of three years before he could finally be admitted to the order. Upon entering the first stage, or twelve-month period, the novitiate was required to cast all his possessions into the general treasury. He then received a copy of the regulations of the brotherhood, as well as a spade with which to bury his excrement, an apron used at the lustrations, and a white robe to don at meals - these were the symbols of purity set forth in Deuteronomy 23:12-14. During the whole of this period the novitiate was considered an outsider, as was the historian Josephus himself who did not go beyond this first stage, was not admitted to the common meals as a probationer, yet who had to observe during this period the ascetic rules of the society. When the probation period was satisfactory, then the candidate was admitted to the second stage of two years, during which time he shared in the common meals, but not in the lustral rites. When this period was satisfactory, then the novitiate became an associate or a full member of the brotherhood, being allowed to partake of the common or sacrificial meal. Before he was admitted into close fellowship, however, he had to bind himself by a solemn oath to observe love to Jehovah, love to all mankind, love of virtue, purity of character which implied humility, love of truth and hatred of falsehood, strict secrecy towards outsiders (so as not to divulge the secret doctrines to any one), and perfect frankness with the members of the order. Finally, he had to be careful to preserve the books belonging to the order, the names of the angels, and the mysteries connected with the Tetragrammaton, as well as the other names of Jehovah and of the angels found in the theosophy and cosmognony which play so important a part among the Jewish mystics and Cabbalists. There were eight different stages of development possible of attainment. In the first stage bodily purity was attained; in the second, celibacy or imposed abstinence from connubial intercourse; in the third, inward of spiritual purity; in the fourth, all anger and malice had or be banished and a meek, lowly spirit cultivated; in the fifth was the culminating point of holiness; in the sixth, the Essene became the temple of the Great Spirit and could prophesy; in the seventh, he was able to perform miraculous cures and raise the dead; and finally in the eighth stage he attained to the position of Elijah, the forerunner of the Messiah. Probably no religious system has ever produced such a community of saints so eager for purity and spiritual attainments. The Essenes founded not only a new sect, but almost a new religion.

The people of these secret societies wore a common type of dress, engaged in common labor, united in common prayers, partook of common meals, deposited their earnings in a common treasury, devoted themselves to works of charity, for which each had the liberty to draw from the common funds at his own discretion, except in the case of relatives. And as has been noted they showed rare benevolence to all people, especially to the poor, the sick, the aged, and to strangers. In every city there was a special official from the brotherhood to extend hospitality to strangers, to supply funds for food, travel, and for other needs - thus they served their fellow men as minister, prophet, and physician. They interpreted dreams, exorcised devils, and performed miracles, bringing peace to the soul, healing to the body, and guidance through the predictions which never failed. Their holy and beautiful lives were exemplified in the words of the Master when He said, “He that loseth his life for My sake shall find it, but he that saveth his life shall lose it.” In renouncing the temporal side they won the glory of that which is eternal. They regarded the body as the soul’s prison house. They bore their hardships and trials rejoicing, having learned that wisdom and self control are crystalized pain. The teaching held paramount was the complete control of all passion and emotion, the importance of which was stressed in the very beginning of the training of neophytes. They not only forgave their enemies But sought to benefit them. Their heroism during the reigns of various kings and rulers is described by Josephus who declared that they were not afraid to die, and often preferred death to mortality.

Although tortured and distorted, burned, torn to pieces at times, they went through all kinds of instruments of torture, but could not be compelled to blaspheme their legislator, to eat what was forbidden, to break any of their principles, to flatter even once any of their tormenters, or to shed a tear. They smiled on their persecutors in their pains, laughed to scorn those who tortured them, and resigned up their souls with great alacrity as expecting to receive them again. They believed that their bodies were corruptible and that the matter that composed them was not lasting - that their souls were immortal, proceeded from a more subtle ether, and had been drawn into their bodies as into prisons by some natural longing. When they were set free from the bonds of long servitude in the flesh they rejoiced and mounted upward; evil souls went to dark and gloomy abodes below.

These disciples of Moses of which Philo and others tell us, steeped themselves in mystic lore and practiced a theosophic system which they believed would hasten the coming of the Messianic kingdom. Their ranks were constantly swelled by the thousands of new comers who resorted to them because of their own disappointment with the world. In these peaceful communities these souls weary with lusts of the flesh found that rich and poor were treated alike, that there were no masters or servants, and they the Essenes called no man master on earth, but all ministered to the needs of all alike. They did not lay up treasure of silver or gold or use money. Among all men they were without money or possession, yet they were the richest of all because they had few wants and lived frugally and righteously, all free serving one another equally. To them all things were determined by destiny and nothing could befall them that was not foreordained. “All is in God’s hands and everything is foreseen” was one of their mottos.

The Essenes were vegetarians, ate nothing that breathed the breath of life, and did not even wear woolens; neither did they use oil or expectorate. They would not eat anything offered to idols or pass through gates where images were placed. On account of their purity of life they were very healthy and many of them lived to be over a hundred years old.

Every adult member of the brotherhood was assigned at the time of his initiation a definite mission in life, and this mission had to be adhered to regardless of all obstacles and temptations even to the sacrifice of his life. Some chose to be healers, physicians, artisans, farmers, teachers, missionaries, carpenters, translators, scribes; other chose the tending of flocks and rearing of bees, preparing of food, making articles of dress, or weaving. Whatever the occupation chosen it had to be something constructive and not destructive. There were never in the organization any gunsmiths, slaughterers of cattle or sheep, or any engaged in any practice or business that destroyed the least of any living thing. History emphasizes that no maker of arrows, darts, spears, swords, helmets, breastplates or shields, no manufacturer of arms, of engines of war, nor any man whatever who made things belonging to war, or even such things that might lead to wickedness in times of peace could ever be found among the Essenes. Again, no trading was allowed or anything by which money was made, only barter. Pliny, among other historians, declares that the Essenes would “not even dream of carrying on traffic, innkeeping, or navigation, for they repudiate every inducement of covetousness.” But all peaceful, non-commercial occupations were in keeping with their purpose in life. While the members of the order were very industrious and worked from sunrise until sunset, they devoted the evening hours to the study of the mysteries of nature and of revelation and of the celestial hierarchy. Abundant time was possible for this, since each member of the community took his share of the work in the department in which he excelled, and since they toiled only for their necessities and not for laying up sums of money.

This peaceful, industrious group of people living in well-kept buildings, usually within a sacred or well-protected enclosure, elected their own president, judges, and officials, and considered themselves free to act only in regard to helping those in trouble and showing charity to the poor. They believed in passive obedience to the powers ordained by God. Their ordinary, everyday affairs were regulated by a committee or council of judges, one hundred in number who met once a week to regulate the activities of the organization and to hear the reports of the workers in the field. All disagreements, all complaints, all tests and trials went to this council. Before any decision could be reached it had to be unanimous. One of the regulations indicates that the Essenes were necessarily cautious in expressing their opinions of one another or of those outside of the group. They were not critical of the lives of those who were trying to reform, and they adhered strictly to one of their rules, “Judge not, lest ye be judged.” Trials were conducted by juries, composed, not as our juries are of twelve persons, but by a majority of the community, or of at least a hundred members who had to be unanimous in their verdict. The brother who was found guilty of walking disorderly was excommunicated, yet he was not regarded as an enemy, but was admonished as a brother and received back after due repentance. Since it was contrary to the practices of the Essenes to procure or eat anything from those outside the order, lest the person become defiled, it was necessary for a person to repent soon or starve to death. Excommunications, however, were almost unknown.

The Essenes rose before daylight and did not speak a word to anyone until after sunrise. To them the sun was an emblem of Divine Light to which they offered traditional forms of prayer as if beseeching it to rise. With the following words they began their hymn of national praise for the renewal of the light of day:

“He in mercy causes His light to shine upon the earth and upon the inhabitants thereof; and in His goodness unfailingly renews every day. How innumerable are Thy works, O Lord! Thou hast made them all in Thy wisdom. The earth is full of Thy possessions, O King, Thou art the only exalted One from everlasting, the praised, the glorified, the extolled since the days of yore. Lord of the universe in Thy great mercy have mercy upon us.”

After prayer and meditation, each Essene betook himself to work, according to the directions of the overseers, and remained at work until the fifth hour or about eleven o’clock when the labor of the forenoon regularly terminated. All again assembled, had a baptism in cold water, donned their white garments, the symbol of purity, and then made their way for their ceremonial meal to the dining room which they entered with as much solemnity as they would a temple. The meal was a common one; each took his seat according to the order of age. Those of the brethren who were bakers and cooks placed before each person a little loaf of bread and a dish of the most simple food, consisting of vegetables. Sometimes there were also palm berries, hysop - only water was drunk. The repast commenced with the minister or Sacedos who invoked Jehovah’s blessing upon it. A mysterious silence was observed during the meal which had every characteristic of a sacrament, and may have been designed to take the place of the sacrifice which they refused to offer in the Temple

sending only their tithes. The minister concluded the meal by offering thanks to the Bountiful Supplier of all their wants. This was their signal for dismissal. After their withdrawal, they put off their sacred white garments, dressed themselves in their working clothes, resumed their several employments under their self-chosen overseers, until evening, when they assembled again to partake of the common meal. They received earnings, presents, or rewards for labor through stewards. These remunerations were placed in the common treasury, from which they could all draw as much as they thought proper for the relief of the distressed and for compassion upon those who were not even of the brotherhood, if they so desired. Such was their manner of life during week days. Every phase of their existence meant a continual purification of the soul.

The Sabbath day was observed with the utmost rigor, since the Essenes took special care not to be guilty of “neglecting the assembling of themselves together as the manner of some is” - words that are attributed later to Saint Paul. Ten persons constituted a complete and legal number for divine worship in the synagogue, and in the presence of such an assembly utmost reverence and respect were maintained and no Essene would even expectorate in such presence. In the synagogue, as in the dining hall, each took his seat according to age and properly attired. There were no ordained ministers with exclusive rights to conduct the services, but any one who desired to do so took up the Scriptures and read them, while another who had much experience in spiritual matters expounded what was read. The distinctive ordinances of the brotherhood as well as the mysteries connected with the Tetragrammaton and the angelic worlds were the prominent topics of Sabbath discussion.

The similarities between Essenism and Primitive Christianity are very striking. Both organizations had the same belief in communism, in baptism or bathing, in the power of prophecy, in pre-existence or reincarnation, in the resurrection and immortality, in the casting out of devils, healing of the sick, the working of miracles, the power of prayer and of God’s name, in destiny, fatalism, or that all things can occur only in the fullness of time and can be foreseen, and in the equality of all mankind. Both the Essenes and the early Christians had the same aversion to ordinary marriage for conjugal pleasures - this aversion was also enhanced by a firm belief in the Messianic event. They had the same denunciation for the rich and the exaltation of the poor, the hard-working, and virtuous; also the same system of organization, the same rules for travelling brethren delegated to charity work, and above all the same love feasts or brotherly meals. Among other similarities were the aversion to taking oaths, swearing, or eating anything that had been contaminated, such as food offered to idols. There are, however, some dissimilarities between the two organizations, for Jesus taught a somewhat revised form of Essenism in that he did not hold to extreme asceticism or rigid Sabbath observance.

Among the numerous examples of the similarities between Essenism and early Christianity it may be of interest briefly to recall a few of the words of the Master Himself, the words of Him whom many of the historians declare, “It cannot be doubted that our Savior Himself belonged to this holy brotherhood”. The salutation of the Essenes was “Peace be with you.” The New Testament records that these were the words of Christ used on several occasions, and particularly at the time of His materialization to His disciples in the upper room after His resurrection from the so-called dead. Incidentally, the Essenes when uttering this salutation often folded their arms, with their right hand over the heart and the left hand over the right breast. Again, Jesus said, “Swear not at all; let your conversation be Yea, yea, and nay, nay.” The Essenes also objected seriously to taking oath, and were even excused from the oath of allegiance by Herod the Great whom without oaths could trust the integrity of this brotherhood. Christ commended that elevated spiritual life, by word of mouth and by example, which enabled men to abstain from marriage for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, and which cannot be obtained “by all men, except those to whom it is given.” He speaks of those “who for the kingdom of heaven’s sake have made themselves eunuchs.” The Essenes also frowned on the ordinary types of marriage and declared that the highest degrees could not be attained by married brethren. As likewise with the Essenes who exalted the poor, and denounced the rich, so with Christ when He said to the rich young man, among other instances, “Go and sell that thou hast and give to the poor and come and follow me.” Afterward He said to the disciples, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” The Essenes demanded that those who joined them should sell all their possessions, and seek God, purity, virtue, soul development, and an opportunity to be of service to mankind; while Jesus urged His disciples to “seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness”, and forbade the laying up of treasures on earth. Among the Essenes who recognized the perfect equality of all classes of people, and who permitted no slavery or servitude, no one was allowed to call another “master” on earth. Jesus held to these same principles and said, “He that is greatest among you shall be servant of all.” Again, as humility was an outstanding characteristic among the Essenes so with Christ who said, “Why call ye me good? There is none good but God”; and furthermore, “Greater things than these ye shall do.” He commended the “poor in spirit.” The same type of miracles performed by the Essenes were performed by Christ - healing the sick, casting out demons, foretelling coming events, raising the dead. The Master used the same methods as the Essenes when sending his disciples on a journey with no extra coat, and without script or purse. Both repudiated war, yet they took weapons with them on perilous journeys, and Christ enjoined his disciples to do likewise when He said, “He that hath a garment, let him sell it and buy a sword.” With the Essenes the Master declared that events take place at predicted times only, and are prearranged as matters of destiny - this knowledge is reflected in His words, “In the fullness of time”, and “My time is not yet come”, “As a man sows, so shall he reap.” The Brothers of the White Clothing also believed in pre-existence or reincarnation; so with the glory He had with the Father before the foundation of the world; He declared, as recorded of Him in Matthew 11:14 and in other passages, that His cousin, John the Baptist, was the reincarnation of Elijah, and that he had attained to that spirit and power which the Essenes strove to attain. The Essenes were separatists, feeling themselves defiled if they had to live with the Sadducees and Pharisees; likewise Jesus said, “Beware of the leaven of the scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees”, denouncing them continually. Community of goods obtained among the Essenes, as was also the case among the Master and His disciples. Judas had the bag, and from it was taken what was needed for the support of the group or for charity. Of the early Christian community in Jerusalem it is written, “And all that believed were together and had all things common.” The Essene continence in eating, drinking, and fasting which Christ before His baptism continued in the desert, was not, however, continued throughout the rest of His life, neither did He demand this asceticism of His disciples. But like the Essenes who did not sacrifice in the Temple He declared that the Lord would have mercy and not sacrifice, and that God was not to be worshipped in any special place, not in Mount Gerazim or yet in Jerusalem, for “the true worshippers of the Father shall worship Him in spirit and in truth.” The “silent ones” enjoined reticence even to the point of death; similarly, Christ said on various occasions, “See that thou tellest no man.” Both the Essenes and early Christianity urged love to God and neighbor, a following of virtue and righteousness. The Lord’s Supper of the early church was a regular meal similar to the sacred daily meals of the Essenes. The same may be said of the form of baptism John, the Essene, in appealing to sinners, to be regenerated by baptism inaugurated a new movement which led to the rise of Christianity and to the words of the early church, “He that believes and is baptized shall be saved.” Baptism was necessary to enter the Essene Order. The words of the Master, “He that loseth his life shall save it” point to the Essenes as their natural source, along with all the other points mentioned, in that the Essenes counted righteousness of far greater importance than physical existence, were not afraid of death, and often did die in agony under the hand of their tormentors and persecutors rather than relinquish their principles. That courage in suffering with which the Christ himself went into death and which He requested of His followers was the same as that of the Essenes.

Finally, the Essene idea of the Messiah and the Messianic kingdom, as indicated in the later part of the Book of Enoch written about 64 B.C. is practically the same as that expressed by Jesus Himself. The Essenes did not think of the coming Messiah as a mighty worldly king at the head of Israel’s hosts to subdue or destroy the enemies of the theocractic people in order to re-establish the throne of David in great splendor and power, but rather they thought of the Messiah as a great spiritual leader, the center of a large, quiet, blessed kingdom of spirits, whose highest commander is God, the Lord of the spirits, who is surrounded by a thousand times a thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand angels. The citizens of this kingdom are the righteous, the saints, the elect ones, separated by the Lord’s foreordination from sinners, as light and darkness have been separated by Him everlastingly. But of them all, God, before the foundation of the world, has chosen one, who like the others is a son of man and a son of woman, whose portion has been to overcome all things before the Lord of the spirits in rectitude to eternity; He is the Just One in whom righteousness dwells, the truly righteous One in the highest sense - the Chosen One, the Son of Man, the Anointed One. In the spirit world, according to the Book of Enoch, there dwells a female spirit known as the Spirit of Wisdom, who after she has looked in vain for a dwelling place among men has returned and taken her place among the angels. In the Chosen One dwells the Spirit of Wisdom, the Spirit of Him who imparts understanding and the Spirit of Power and Justice. From thence the Divine Wisdom reveals to the Son of Man those righteous and holy ones who dwell on earth, whose portion the Lord of the Spirits preserves because they have hated and despised this world of injustice. These are the humble who have chastened their bodies, who loved God and did not love gold and silver or any of the riches of the world, but rather gave their bodies over to torture; and who since they have existed did not long for terrestrial food, but considered themselves a breath that passes away. Thus they lived, were often tried of God, but their spirits were found in cleanliness to praise His name. The time of their reward will come, the Book concludes - the chosen are saved even though wars of destruction come upon the land. They will come forth from all quarters of the earth and be an imperishable blessing and light to dwell with the Son of Man throughout all eternity.

Christ and the Christian congregation or organization, according to historians, proceeded from the Essenes. Life in the Essene communities and in the Essene schools in various sections of the world, fill the gap, or the hidden years of Christ’s life which the evangelists of the Bible try to bridge by the words, “And he increased in wisdom and statue and in favor with God and man.” The literature of the Essenes together with other ancient records now partially known to some historians bridges that period of Christ’s life from twelve until thirty years of age. Mary and Joseph were high initiates in the Essene community in Palestine. They were guided and guarded and watched over during their flight into Egypt as well as when they returned to Galilee. Jesus’ initiation is said to have taken place at Jutha near the great castle of Masseda - He was recognized as an Essene by his white seamless robe and by His baptism, and known as the Chosen of God, and begotten of the Eternal Spirit, according to the ancient traditions and writings. He was versed in the things of nature and of wisdom, and was brought up in the Essene Brotherhood. During His life in the Essene colonies or communities He conceived the plan which He intended to carry out, until finally He was sent out by His Order to effect a great moral revolution. His object in life was to bring about a reformation of Judaism by means of Essenism, although as time advanced He taught a modified Essenism. The Essenes found in Judea and Egypt were absorbed into the Christian sect after the ascension. Says the historian Graetz in his HISTORY OF THE JEWS, voicing the findings of many other historians, “Jesus thus appropriated to Himself the essential features of Essenism, so that Christianity is nothing but an offshoot of Essenism. The Essenes were not heard of after A.D. 40.” Historians proceed to show that the relationship between Essenism and Christianity are similar to those of parent and child. How could it be otherwise with its Founder an Essene and its forerunner, John the Baptist, also a member of the Order? John was the first to proclaim the kingdom of heaven. The term “Baptist” means nothing else than that he was an Essene, one who cleanses his body daily in spring water - the water also being declared to have the power of spiritual cleansing as well. He lived the life of a “Nazarite”, which means he belonged to the Essenes who were formerly called “Nazarites”. He lived near the Jordan in the desert country of the Essenes, baptizing penitents who joined the Essene Order at the same time.

The Essenes drew from all classes and assimilated their environment. They did not succumb to it, but rather imposed their mark on their contemporaries so impressively that they conquered. The ascetic practices of the communistic group were a means to an end - the practice of virtue and the cult of saintliness being part of the teaching of Judaism was absorbed later into the new group under the name “Christians”. The Essene converts, after the preaching of the Messiah, became the good Christians or the good Jews, and started on the long trail of gradual loss of identity into the harmonious background of universal Christianity.

R18. See Source File Key #2067 for November, 1981 A.R.E. NEWS ARTICLE about Mary LaCroix and her book about the Essenes, entitled THE REMNANT re 2067-12.

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A psychic reading for a 56-year-old woman exploring her past life as Dorothy Manley during the Salem witchcraft trials, addressing her current work as a teacher, lecturer, and writer, and giving advice on eliminating self from her work.

People: Dorothy Manley, Edward Manley, Edna Shoemaker Manley, Ann Putnam, Wing Anderson, Carl Wickland, Houdini

Places: Salem, Boston, Virginia Beach, New Hampshire, Georgia, California, Florida, Egypt, Persia, India, England

Concepts: past-life in Salem witchcraft, Reincarnation, psychic gifts, persecution, self-centeredness, teaching, writing, Essenes

Referenced readings: 2067-1, 2067-11

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Essenes, Jesus Christ, Entity (Cayce Term), Egypt, Prophecy, Soul, Angels, Virgin Mary, Reincarnation, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Baptism, Initiation, Healing, Moses, Prayer, Prophets, Greece, Purpose, Jerusalem, Gertrude Cayce

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 2067-12, ReadingID 8647.

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