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- THE REINCARNATION OF EDGAR CAYCE Chapter Three: The Story of Ra-Ta

The story of the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce is really involved with the solving of a mystery. Ra has been leaving a track of time-stamped clues throughout our history, and the uncovering of these clues is one of the things that helps to solve this mystery and to give credibility to the story. So, for the next clue, we need to understand the history of Ra-Ta as revealed in the spiritual framework of the Edgar Cayce Readings. I will also draw on the hypnotic past-life regression, performed by renowned author and researcher Jess Stearn, of a person who the Cayce Readings said had lived during the period of Ra-Ta. This information was presented in Stearns 1993 book called Intimates Forever. (Jess Stearn also wrote perhaps the single most popular book about Cayce, entitled The Sleeping Prophet.) Before we discuss Ra-Ta, it will be important for certain readers to be assured that Cayces readings did not put the Ra group nor his own previous incarnation as Ra-Ta at the top of the pyramid in the spiritual sense. In the last chapter we saw how Ra used the word Logos to describe the personality of our Galaxy as a conscious being. In the Cayce Readings, it is stated that the Logos decided to take on personal Earth incarnations from the very beginning of our third-density cycle of experience. [This could well be due to the immense problems that had already occurred with Mars and Maldek.] The original incarnation of the Logos was known as Amilius, who became the prototype for Adam in the book of Genesis. After many very historic spiritual incarnations including Melchizedek, Elijah and Moses, the final incarnation of the Logos on earth came about in the life of Jesus, who called himself the last Adam. Once Jesus completed his personal initiation, he began saying I am the Logos, which again is now translated to I am the Word. The Cayce readings also say that Jesus was the first person to complete this process of self-transformation, and that others would follow a similar path at the end of the cycle. So, it is well known to Cayce scholars that the Logos is of central importance in directing human civilization on Earth; but certainly, one entity cannot be expected to manage all the responsibility by itself without having first differentiated itself into many different beings at different levels of density. The process of guarding, spiritually supporting and transferring souls from one planet to another requires a great deal of staffing, with contacts both in higher realms as well as on the planets themselves. And thus, in a little-known prayer discovered by an associate of Wilcocks, the Cayce Readings refer to the names Ra and Ra-Ta separately, indicating that they are two different entities, both of whom are responsible for such administrative tasks. Most A.R.E. members often overlook this point, yet it is perhaps the most direct clue in all of the Cayce Readings that his source was well aware of the Ra group. According to the Cayce readings, Ra Ta was an early incarnation of Cayce in Egypt at 10,500 BC, and the context from Rueckert / LL Researchs work makes it clear that Ra had provided direct assistance to Ra-Ta at that time. The following story, derived from the Cayce Readings, is predominantly summarized from the book by W.H. Church entitled Many Happy Returns, The Past Lives of Edgar Cayce and the book by Mark Lehner entitled The Egyptian Heritage. Between these two books, all essential points of the story can be reconstructed. Ra-Ta started his life by being born in a less-civilized area, ruled by the tribe of Zu, (perhaps the ancient Sumerians) somewhere between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasian Mountains. The Cayce Readings tell us that Ra-Ta was a very unusual child, in that he had pale white skin and blue eyes in an area where the others did not look this way. His mother explained that the gods (think ETs) from that area had engendered her pregnancy, hence making Ra-Ta an ET-human hybrid. Even though she was the daughter of the leader of the
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Zu / Sumerian tribe, the tribal elders were very spooked by the bizarre birth and appearance of Ra-Ta, as well as the problem that she did not have a husband, which was frowned upon in their culture. Therefore, the elders ordered her and Ra-Ta to be banished from the land with a group of assistants to protect them. Over time, they made their way to the slopes of what is now Mount Ararat in Turkey. During this time period, the civilization of Atlantis had just begun spreading out into other areas from the central land of Poseidia in the area of what is now Cuba and Florida. The Turkish area that Ra-Ta and his mother came to had only recently started to have diplomatic relations with the Atlanteans, and thus was still behind the times in the technological sense. As Ra-Ta grew up, it became clear that he had prophetic abilities and could channel very accurate psychic information. At 21 years of age he had a prophetic dream that a worldwide cataclysm would occur in the not-too-distant future. Most of the island continent of Poseidia was going to be inundated, and his own area would also suffer cataclysms. His intuition and scientific research on the Global Grid of energy lines combined to suggest that Egypt would be the safest place to go for weathering out these Earth Changes, since it was situated at the center of the Grid. (This has now been scientifically verified through studies of the Becker-Hagens grid, as reported in Wilcocks Convergence series.) When the Earths poles shifted, Egypt would be the balance-point for their movement. Ra-Ta communicated this prophecy to the Kings son Arart, and a pioneering group of 900 people led by Arart with Ra Ta as their spiritual leader made the journey from Turkey to Egypt. After a long and arduous journey, they arrived in the Egyptian city of Luz. Initially there was mistrust and scrutiny, but eventually the Egyptians accepted the Atlanteans and exalted them. Arart was proclaimed King and Ra-Ta was accepted as their high priest. Over a period of time, spiritual and moral reforms were instituted by Ra-Ta and he became beloved by the people. He built temples for self-healing and transformation, and was able to perform many miraculous acts. By this time, many other Atlanteans had been receiving visions of the coming inundation, and were emigrating away from the island continent of Poseidia in the Atlantic in droves. As part of what was really a very busy life, [294-148], Ra-Ta began using an Atlantean anti-gravitational craft to travel abroad and interact with the Atlanteans and other cultures over 10-year periods of time. During these travels, he learned much more about Atlantean science and technology, which included many very advanced concepts about how science and spirit fit together. Furthermore, the Atlanteans wished to create a storehouse of their accumulated knowledge and wisdom so that it would not perish, and they also understood that Egypt would be one of three safest places for a copy of their records to be stored. Similar records were being prepared in Posiedia itself at the Temple of Ilta, and another location in the Yucatan area of Mesoamerica. Since Ra-Ta was the ambassador and spiritual leader of Egypt, negotiations were conducted with the Atlanteans about how to proceed in the process of storing and preserving the records. Earlier in his spiritual ministry in Egypt, Ra Ta had instituted a moral code that included loyalty in marriage and communal living. Prior to Ra Ta, the custom was for men and women to be segregated and only come together in a special conjugal chamber for intimate encounters. After the third 10-year period in which he had been traveling abroad, he returned to Egypt and was horrified by what he had discovered: in the relatively short time since he had gone, his sacred temples had been converted into sexual playgrounds. A great turmoil ensued as he rushed to condemn these actions, and certain individuals became very angry with him and started plotting a way to bring about his removal from power. As they observed him, they became aware that he was extremely fond of a young woman who danced in the temples named Isris. They were then able to cleverly trick and coerce Isris into seducing Ra-Ta. Once Ra-Ta took the bait, the illicit affair was revealed, and the conspirators then pointed accusing fingers of how he had broken his own spiritual principles of monogamous marriage. To make matters worse, Isris was a favorite of Ararts son Araaraart, who had become the new King. Jealousy and the desire for revenge can

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certainly go a long way, and in this case it led to the banishment of Ra-Ta and 231 followers who decided to go with him. They ended up in what now is called Ethiopia and what was then called Nubia. Ra Ta reflected with regret on the monumental consequences of his dalliance. But wherever Ra Ta lived he carried his blessings with him, and the banishment only helped to further his soul evolution: With the entering into the Nubian land, there came such a change that there were the better conditions at every term that may be applied to human experience As the priest in this creative period entered more and more into the closer relationships with the Creative Forces. Greater were the abilities of the entity or body Ra Ta to be able to make or bring about the material manifestations of that relationship hence, the peace that was enjoyed by all those throughout the land During his banishment, Ra-Ta met with an earlier human incarnation of the Logos known as Hermes, who later was honorably referred to as Thothermes Trismestigus, meaning Thrice Greatest Hermes. The Egyptians lauded him as the scribe of the Gods or lord of divine words. Hermes life is shrouded in mystery according to Church. He seemed to show up apparently out of nowhere. He had prophetic dreams and could look forward and backward in time, but he was low profile and self-effacing. Hermes and Ra Ta were closely associated, and Cayce referred to Hermes as the heart and the tongue of Ra. Here, we must remember that Ra-Tas name was eventually shortened to just Ra. Therefore, this quote appears to mean that Hermes had as much of an influence on Ra-Ta as the sixth-density Ra group did. The historical figure of Hermes is still heavily revered by the secret societies of todays world, as can be seen by entering the National Museum of Art in Washington, DC, whereupon you soon walk into a giant three-story-high marble room ringed with magnificent black pillars and a huge statue of Hermes in the center. Most people do not think much about this connection, since Hermes was the patron of the arts in Greek mythology. Cayce was a Freemason himself, and thus it must have been a great surprise to his Masonic cohorts that his readings had indicated that Hermes was in fact an earlier incarnation of Jesus! Meanwhile things were falling apart back in Egypt for King Araaraat. There was discontent amongst the people and uprisings without the calming vibration of Ra-Ta, even though he had often been out of town. Law and order was falling apart and the Atlanteans hopes and dreams for the future of Egypt were crumbling. The King was having regrets over his banishment of Ra Ta. After nine years, the King finally rescinded the banishment decree and Ra Ta was allowed to return. In fact, this led to the King ending up as being just a figurehead while Ra Ta was exalted, but the King allowed this willingly, to permit the divine purpose inspired by Ra Ta to be reinstigated. So peace and harmony reined once more in Egypt. Ra-Ta went on to live an unusually long life, which the Cayce Readings attribute to him spending a great deal of time within a pyramid in order to harness the rejuvenative energies that it produces. Church supposes that Hermes helped Ra reverse his aging trend as well. It was during this period of the return from banishment that the pyramids were constructed. Cayce gave Hermes credit as the architect, while Ra Ta, now known as Ra, was the second most significant collaborator. By some esoteric means, the stones were levitated and set in place. Jess Stearn, author of The Sleeping Prophet, released a book in 1993 called Edgar Cayces Mysteries of Reincarnation Intimates Forever. There are some references in this book that bring new information to light regarding Ra-Ta. Stearn decided to find someone who had lived in the time of Ra Ta and had gotten a reading from Cayce. His subject was Anne Grey Holbein, a friend of Cayces during this life as well as a close associate in his Ra Ta incarnation. Stearns plan was to hypnotize and regress her back to the time of Ra-Ta and get an eyewitness account of what happened. What follows is excerpted from that regression:

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He was Ra then. He shortened his name to one syllable. It mated his energy to the sun. She then talks of Ra establishing of schools and building temples. As Cayce scholars already know, many of the people of that time had animal characteristics like tails or feathers, thus giving birth to the many mythological records of half-human, half-animal beings such as mermaids and minotaurs. Ra-Ta and associates would treat these people at the Temple of Sacrifice and the Temple Beautiful to remove their animal appendages and enhance their state of consciousness. She goes on to discuss the banishment and eventual return of Ra back to Egypt, even more powerful and charismatic than before: He had a magnetic power, enhanced by a striking appearance. He seemed to give off a golden aura They say he never slept, and he never appeared tired. Though he had been around longer than anyone could remember, he looked ageless. He was like a man in his prime. She also talks of Ras building of the pyramids: He was able to move the great stones of the pyramids as if they were made of cork. He talked to the stones. He would point and say, I want you there and the stone moved there The thought of death never bothered him, he never spoke of it. Then one day Ra was gone. No body, no ashes, no funeral: The older people said not to fret about it. His energy would always be with us. The Cayce Readings asserted that Ra used the recently constructed Great Pyramid to ascend at the end of his life, thus leaving nothing behind. So there we have it - an eyewitness account, through regression, of Ras physical manifestation in Egypt. Although it is not completely clear how Ra-Ta reverted to Ra or the precise contribution of Hermes, everything else correlates with Carla Rueckerts channeling of Ra perfectly, from the description of the body, to the unusual disappearance of the body, to the elders claims that his energy will always be with us. I repeat a description Ra made of itself from the Rueckert channeling: We exist as light and love and radiate through 90% of the Universe. And interestingly, within minutes of the first-ever session between LL Research Group and Ra, they said, We as a group, or what you would call a social memory complex, made contact with a race of your planetary kind which you call Egyptians We spoke to one who heard and understood and was in a position to decree the Law of One. However, the priests and peoples of that era quickly distorted our message, robbing it of the, shall we say, compassion with which unity is informed by its very nature. It is clear that such distortions had already started to take place during the 30 years where Ra-Ta had been traveling abroad, and now the words of Ra through Rueckert suggest that the situation dramatically worsened soon after he departed from the physical plane. I would suggest that the lack of clarity in the Cayce readings as to the distinction between Ra-Ta and Ra was due to Cayces fundamental Christianity. To acknowledge that an ethereal being had created a body and was performing all these miracles would give Ra a Godlike status, which would have violated Cayces basic Christian precepts. For what little the readings did say, they were very careful not to overly aggrandize Ras importance: Ye say, then, such an entity was a god! No. No ye only say that because there is the misunderstanding of what were the characters or types of spiritual evolution as related to physical evolution in the earth at that period. [281-43]

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I would hypothesize that Ra-Ta was channeling Ra even back in Turkey, issuing many correct prophecies, and this in turn gave Ra-Ta the credibility to have 900 of his associates follow him to Egypt when he warned of coming Earth Changes. Perhaps Ra-Ta passed on and Ra manifested in his place. Whatever happened, this eyewitness hypnotic regression of Anne Tolbein was published nine years after Rueckert channeled the Law of One series, which certainly has not enjoyed widespread popularity. At one point in the past, someone submitted the Ra transcripts to the A.R.E.s Board of Directors, but it was quickly rejected. I would also suggest the possibility that Ra continued their work with Edgar Cayce, and was the intermediary that brought Cayce his dream information, since it fits the profile of how Ra works with people as stated in the Law of One series. Ra did not inform Wilcock that he was Edgar Cayces reincarnation until an entire year after he had perfected his channeling, including having issued scores of accurate, documented future prophecies. In this first reading that revealed the Cayce connection, which shocked Wilcock to his core, there was a strong suggestion that Ra had also been working very closely with Cayce. This can be seen in the following excerpt from that reading: (a greater portion of this reading is included in Chapter 11): Ra: Be it known that you are not as configured this time for medical readings and for individual one-on-one counseling. This is one of the involvements that we have wished to change This reading makes it quite clear that Ra could change the configuration of Cayce and Wilcocks connections to the Infinite. Ra couldnt identify itself to Cayce because of Cayces fundamental Christian beliefs. And later we will see that the Ra group is working with the embodiment of David Wilcock once again, by taking a on similar role that it had with the Atlanteans when, as Ra-Ta, he gave the warning for coming inundation and had his small group accompany him to Egypt. In this incarnation, Wilcock is helping to herald the dimensional shift that is taking place in this time period on Planet Earth. All of these points come into perfect harmony when we see that Ra has identified itself as Wilcocks own Higher Self, which is a sixth-density entity that guides and watches over the various incarnations of the soul. Even though Cayce was said to be accessing the Akashic Records, a universal storehouse of wisdom, to do his readings, he would have needed to work through his Higher Self in order to do so. Summary of important points: 1. The description of Ras physical appearance in Egypt by Anne Holbein was almost exactly the same as Ras own description of himself in the Rueckert channelings. 2. There was a strong connection between Ra-Ta, a prior incarnation of Cayce and Ra. In the Cayce readings they were referred to as one in the same, but this was likely due to a potential violation of Cayces Christian fundamentalism if the precise truth was revealed. 3. According to the Cayce readings, Ra demonstrated miraculous healing powers as well as living longer than anyone else. Ra never died. He just vanished. 4. Ra-Ta had enough credibility with the Atlanteans to cause hundreds of them to leave Atlantis on a very arduous journey to Egypt because of his prediction of a coming inundation. He had to have a track record of previous correct predictions in order to develop this kind of credibility. I would suggest that he was probably channeling Ra. There is an implied connection between Ra and Cayce. Cayce did make a prophecy that the Priest, Ra-Ta, would return in 1998. The person who seems to make the best case for fulfilling that prophecy is David Wilcock.

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