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The Book of the Revelation: A Commentary Based on a Study of Twenty-Three Psychic Discourses by Edgar Cayce

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I was at first shocked when I saw that a reviewer of this book rated it with only one star. Then I read the review and knew why. This book is not for the closed minded or for those who have a deeply embedded fear of looking at things another way than they have been taught all their lives.

However, for the sincere seeker and open-minded, this book is truly wonderful! Finally something that makes the Book of Revelations make sense -- and in a way that encourages and challenges the reader to take responsibility for his or her own understanding. It is all to easy to conceive of all darkness and evil being only from some "outside devil." It takes inner courage and sincerity to look at ourselves and see that we have the entire "war" of Dark and Light within our own selves!

The only mistake Edgar Cayce made here was by being ahead of his time. If you are only willing to interpret the Bible that way your Sunday School teacher taught you, I will concede that this book is not for you.

For myself, I found it enlightening and profound!

This book presents the material found in the book of Revelations not as a timeline for profetic end-times filled with horror, devastation, punishment, and salvation of the elect, but rather it treats the symbology and actions of Revelations as a road map of the changes taking place in the individual's physical, emotional, mental and spititual bodies during a person's process of spiritual "enlightenment". For example, the opening of the "seals" has to do with the opening of each of the 7 Chakras and the accompanying experiences as each chakra comes into fullness; the 12 Elders are the 12 cranial nerves, etc. The book systematically takes the chapters of Revelations and explains the process taking place in this unique manner.
The process described by Cayce is amazingly parallel to the process described in the Hindu spiritual literature. When reading Cayce's material it is important to remember that Cayce's knowledge-base (mind/English language) did not possess the vocabulary to describe these altered estates of consciousness, and had to rely on the symbols familiar to Cayce. Sanskrit, unlike the English language, posseses voluminous terminology that describe the most minute differences in the various altered states of consciousness. This copious vocabulary reservoir allows individuals to communicate ideas and experiences that would be very difficult to describe to those who have not had similar experiences.
I have studied this book in a group setting, and can honestly say it is a book for "the few". To those who can "understand" its message it is priceless.

A curse from God from the Book of Revelation? You've got to be kidding! It's incredible how stupid and superstitious so many people are. There are endless debates and opinions regarding the TRUE meaning and interpretation of the Bible. Study the real history of its origins and you'll see why so many are confused. The word of God? Baloney! If you have any brain you'll sidestep all the Christian blather and hypocrisy and read as much of Cayce as you can get. You'll get a much clearer and compassionate picture of the Cosmos and your place in it than you can get from any TV preacher. It wasn't long ago that good Christians would have burned Cayce at the stake for what he spoke. Now, that is something that our oh so wonderful King George would deserve, but not a humble psychic. Wake up sheeple, it IS the hour of the time. Peace be with you.

This is a great book, utterly essential to anyone interested in raising the kundalini force. Secondly, as other reviewers have noted, it also brings the Revelation, the last chapter in the Bible, into clear focus, not as a prophecy of doom, but an image of the risen kundalini and how it brings a new heaven and earth...that is, a renewed consciousness, and a revivified body. Worth the 30 bucks, worth 30 times 30. BUY NOW.

A group analyzed Cayce's comments on The Revelation to John. They asked Cayce "to give... an interpreation... explaining the general plan and theme, the significance.... and explanations of the symbols... as will make this book of personal value .... to awaken and develop the inner life"

To approach the living God, one must be prepared and go humbly as Uzza found out and Jesus taught in the lesson of the self-righteous Pharisee and the repentant tax collector.

Physical, mental and spiritual aspects are discussed. The Revelation, like the rest of the Bible, is best when read continually. Overtime growth takes place.

While not the Revelation itself, this may help many better understand it and move more in the way God would have us.

Arrived in excellent condition and promptly

The experienced reader of Edgar Cayce probably already knows that his readings on things other than health and cures for bodily ailments do not enjoy a good accuracy rate. Since Edgar Cayce considered himself a very religious man, though, this book was enough to pique my curiosity.

What the reader will find therein is almost a verbatim restatement of the self-centered New Age religious philosophy. According to Cayce, the four beasts and the four horses in the Book of Revelation both refer to four different centers of the body. The seven churches refer to seven different glands in the body, and so forth.

As a religious man, Cayce seems completely unconcerned that the Book of Revelation contains a curse for anyone who adds or detracts from its meaning. And Cayce himself leaves the reader with one glaring question: Since he claims to be connected to a universal consciousness, but never identifies who is answering the questions put to him while his is in a trance, his benefactor could be a different soul (if it is another soul) every time, and there's no guarantee that any of these souls are divine in any way. So the source of his information is seriously in doubt.

As with most psychics, Edgar Cayce leaves more questions behind than he ever answered.

As a Christian, I gave the book one star because it did not help me understand the Book of Revelations. Those who are into New Age philosophies -- or old Babylonian cults -- may rate the book somewhat higher.

The last reviewer states that " the material is seriously in doubt", I would like to input that any religious/ non caftual unformation is seriously in doubt as are 95% of the books of the bible. Political commentaries of so called prophets are little more than that and far from religious revelation. People should stick to their own beliefs instead of going out of their way to criticize others as my predecessor and myself have now done.

You get an ideal of how poor the scholarship is on this one by the fact that the author, editor, and publisher don't even seem to know it's the book of Revelation, NOT Revelations! Sheeeeesh!