Edgar Cayce's Story of Jesus

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Summary: Read this book. You will like Jesus the Christ.
Review: I am not a Christian the way your traditional doctrines define Christian. However, I do believe in The Christ. He is an amazing role model for us all. Knowing about his real story does not change that. It shouldn't change that. Cayce's information fills in many gaps left by the Bible. For those who choose to use the Bible as their only source, this book will scare them because it shakes the foundations upon which their faith is based.

Others of us will enjoy the Story; take comfort in it and perhaps become inspired by it.

If you are non-traditional Christian, a person brought up in a Structured and flawed church (as was I), a pagan, Witch, Spiritualist, atheist... Read this book You will like Jesus The Christ.

Rating:
Summary: Read this book. You will like Jesus the Christ.
Review: I am not a Christian the way your traditional doctrines define Christian. However, I do believe in The Christ. He is an amazing role model for us all. Knowing about his real story does not change that. It shouldn't change that. Cayce's information fills in many gaps left by the Bible. For those who choose to use the Bible as their only source, this book will scare them because it shakes the foundations upon which their faith is based.

Others of us will enjoy the Story; take comfort in it and perhaps become inspired by it.

If you are non-traditional Christian, a person brought up in a Structured and flawed church (as was I), a pagan, Witch, Spiritualist, atheist... Read this book You will like Jesus The Christ.

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Summary: Interesting, controversial and for some "dangerous."
Review: I guess if you are aware of and buy into alternative Christianity, the akashic records and Cayce's psychic abilities and the concept of channeling then you'll find this book highly enjoyable and very inspiring. When I read this book many years ago I found it interesting, yet not completely satisfying. Yet I give Cayce some slack, for I've found his health readings useful, and his metaphysics highly thought provoking despite the confusing phraseology. I never could understand why an apparently enlightened being who could seemingly channel such supposedly "enlightened" information through Cayce couldn't at least also speak in clear English. As someone once said: Anything worth saying is worth saying clearly.

For those who are offended by the very thought of alternative Christianity and consider it "dangerous," I suggest that you read Elaine Pagel's "Beyond Belief" and also her "Gnostic Gospels" so that come to understand exactly why orthodoxy elbowed out Gnosticism to rule the masses, why orthodoxy found Gnosticism threatening, and why the early bishops voted to make Jesus equal to God at the first ecumenical council of Nicea 400 years after the crucifixion. Indeed they even altered the Bible to say so despite the so-called rules of of apostalic succession that demanded no deviation from the so-called original Christianity of Peter.

Accordingly citing the Bible as "evidence" that "Edgar Cayce's Story of Jesus" or indeed any other's book on the subject of alternative Christiantiy is flawed, wrong or "evil" is also questionable. To help clear up any intolerant misconceptions I encourage individuals to research "The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read" to see how much disagreement exists between the four canonical gospels.

Finally, if alternative Christianity fascinates you, I highly recommend the book "Mystical Life of Jesus." Written by the former Imperator, H. Spencer Lewis, of the AMORC Rosicrucians, what sets Mystical Life of Jesus in a league all by itself is that Lewis wrote of the mystical Essene sect a full *SIXTEEN* years before the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, and in hindsight quite accurately in many respects. I personally suspect that THAT alone settles once and for all who just exactly the REAL Rosicrucians are.

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Summary: Recommending the Bible instead, starting with John's gospel
Review: I never bought a copy of this book but was provided an unsolicited copy by the author thirty years ago. I regarded it then, as I do now, as a serious challenge against, not a part of, historical bible-based Christianity. Since spiritism and necromancy are specifically identified and forbidden in the bible (Deuteronomy 18:10-13), it can be expected that a christ portrayed from such sources would also be in contradiction with the bible (fell in the garden of Eden, reincarnated numerous times, sat under eastern masters, etc.). These assertions may be intriguing to someone under the enticement of the occult, but to the orthodox Christian they are utter blasphemy against the Son of God. The book convinced me that Cayce functioned as a spiritist medium as defined in Deuteronomy 18 and that demonic spirits spoke these things through him.

Nowhere in the bible does the Spirit of God endeavor to fascinate anyone with the prospect of spiritual knowledge, rather he deals with issues of the conscience; the imperative of repentance and new birth, and the seriousness of death and final judgement. "And as it is appointed unto man once to die, but after this the judgement" - Hebrews 9:27. Denying these things in favor of reincarnation is serious business as it glosses over personal accountability and the right of a holy God to judge wickedness.

Being a born-again Christian since 1967 and having advised the now-deceased author of my convictions in these matters, I would not recommend this book to anyone seeking Christ, but rather the gospel of John, then the rest of the bible. The true, living Lord Jesus is there. Seek him with your whole heart, keeping his words and you will find him. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" - John 3:16.

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Summary: Interesting, but disjointed
Review: The author presents information from the Edgar Cayce "readings" which have to do with Jesus and who he was. Essentially, additional details are given about his birth, childhood, ministry, death and resurrection. Cayce's unique spin on the Christian message is blended in and it's very fascinating.

The trouble is that the book relies too much on the "readings" themselves which are somewhat obtuse, instead of just explaining to us what was meant and in what context it applies. The result is that the individual parts of the book don't really blend together into a whole and a lot of questions are left unanswered.

Nevertheless, it presents an interesting spin on Jesus and made me want to read more Cayce-related information.

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Summary: This could be the most enlightening book you will ever read.
Review: This is it. This is the most enlightening book I have ever read. The author excerpts from the voluminous information provided by Edgar Cayce the information pertinent to Jesus Christ. He compiles it into a single volume and tries to help you make sense of these bits and pieces given by Cayce over decades. I can't wait to read it again. But I warn you, this is not for everyone. You have to be prepared for what you will learn. The prerequisite is a belief beyond a shadow of a doubt that every word revealed through the Cayce "readings" came from the spiritual world. If you are not there yet, you are wasting your time with this book, you won't believe what you read. It is true that the teacher will teach when the student is ready. If you are on a personal Search for God I encourage you to read "There is a River" and other books about Cayce. Once you have read enough to become convinced of Cayce's incredible accuracy in diagnosing and prescribing remedies for otherwise incurable illnesses; once you become a believer, you are then ready to read this. Your reward will be an enlightened insight into the life (or dare I say plural and give some of it away) of Jesus Christ. Much of the information provided corroborates and further explains that which is in the Bible. Read them both and your Search for God will be blessed with the truth, the light, and the way. No one comes to the Father except through Him. Eat of His flesh, Drink of His blood, for he is truly the bread of life. The spirit gives life, the flesh counts for nothing. The words He has spoken to us are SPIRIT, and they are life (John,6).

Rating:
Summary: This could be the most enlightening book you will ever read.
Review: This is it. This is the most enlightening book I have ever read. The author excerpts from the voluminous information provided by Edgar Cayce the information pertinent to Jesus Christ. He compiles it into a single volume and tries to help you make sense of these bits and pieces given by Cayce over decades. I can't wait to read it again. But I warn you, this is not for everyone. You have to be prepared for what you will learn. The prerequisite is a belief beyond a shadow of a doubt that every word revealed through the Cayce "readings" came from the spiritual world. If you are not there yet, you are wasting your time with this book, you won't believe what you read. It is true that the teacher will teach when the student is ready. If you are on a personal Search for God I encourage you to read "There is a River" and other books about Cayce. Once you have read enough to become convinced of Cayce's incredible accuracy in diagnosing and prescribing remedies for otherwise incurable illnesses; once you become a believer, you are then ready to read this. Your reward will be an enlightened insight into the life (or dare I say plural and give some of it away) of Jesus Christ. Much of the information provided corroborates and further explains that which is in the Bible. Read them both and your Search for God will be blessed with the truth, the light, and the way. No one comes to the Father except through Him. Eat of His flesh, Drink of His blood, for he is truly the bread of life. The spirit gives life, the flesh counts for nothing. The words He has spoken to us are SPIRIT, and they are life (John,6).

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Summary: Interesting, but not thoroughly believable
Review: Using excerpts from Cayce's "readings" the author puts forth Cayce's intersting spin on Jesus and Christianity and provides a lot of detail on Jesus life that aren't found in the Bible. Much of what is in the "readings" is obtuse and unverifyable and it's all strung together in a style that renders it disjointed. Cayce goes into such detail, in some cases giving detailed appearences of various characters involved in Jesus' life that it seems legit and you want to believe him. But ultimately, after reading this book and some other Cayce material on the web, I came away thinking that Cayce's "readings" were just some weird manifestation of an extremely detailed "theory" that he had come up with on his own. For example, at one point we're told that Michael the Archangel actually speaks through Cayce. And yet what Michael says is obtuse and more or less meaningless. Why would Michael the Archangel bother speaking through him if he didn't have something remotely intelligible or meaningful to say? The book exercises your imagination, though.