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Reincarnation
THE LIVES OF LEILA
One Soul's Journey Through Reincarnation
Based on past-life
readings by Edgar Cayce.
Since Leila Evans Cayce died when she was only two and a half, you
might expect her story to be short, but the real story begins with
this little girl's death. Had she lived, she would have been the
sister of Edgar Cayce, the famous psychic who incarnated seven short
months after her death. The doctors never knew why Leila died. But
her mother wrote in her diary that Leila slowly "drifted away"
because the family situation had become less than ideal for a little
girl, particularly this little girl.
Leila died August 24, 1876. Some sixty years later, a young woman
walked into the offices of the then aging Edgar Cayce and asked if he
would give her one of his now famous psychic readings. Mr. Cayce
didn't need to give a reading to know who this woman was, he
recognized the soul of Leila immediately, but the reading confirmed
it. She was indeed the same soul who would have been Cayce's older
sister. The reading went on to say that Leila withdrew from that
brief incarnation because the situation in the home was indeed not
what she had expected. The souls of Leila and her parents had made an
agreement prior to her incarnation concerning the kind of home
atmosphere they would have together. But, the setting was not as
agreed upon and Leila left. Leila's expectations must have been
emotionally vital for her to have left a family who so adored her,
for their "little angel," as they called her, was the special one of
the family. However, the soul in the role of the father was not
living up to his part of the plan, and this so upset Leila that her
soul wouldn't stay. Cayce's reading indicates that the father's
drinking disrupted the family, ruining Leila's hopes for the new
incarnation. Cryptically, the reading then says that she "withdrew to
the deeper meditation in the Mercurian environs." This statement
refers to a frequently expressed concept in the Cayce readings
concerning soul experiences between physical lifetimes as sojourns in
the surrounding environments of our solar system, particularly the
"environs" of the other planets in our system. Souls don't actually
live on the planets as we do in the third dimension, but
rather in fourth- and fifth-dimensional environs near the
planets. Apparently, Leila withdrew to what we might call the fourth
dimension of the planet Mercury &endash; not on the planet
Mercury but within its fourth-dimensional realms. Obviously, in
dimensions beyond the third, Mercury would be quite a different
environment than we are capable of perceiving with carnal eyes.
Astrologers have long taught that the planets are far more than
physical spheres in dark space, assigning each planet a special set
of characteristics. Metaphysically, they could be considered soul
colleges in the university of this star system. Mercury is
astrologically associated with the forces of the mind. Leila sought
refuge from her disappointment by sojourning there for exactly one
"full cycle," 33 years, Cayce explains, before returning to the
environs of Earth to reincarnate on August 24, 1910 &endash; this
time with the name of Barbara Murray.
Again her childhood home setting was lacking in many ways, forcing
her to decide whether she would endure the shortcomings in order to
take advantage of the opportunities available through these new
parents or withdraw again. She chose to endure.
It was at the age of 27 that she sat next to the then 60-year-old
Cayce, listening to his description of her soul's life, which seemed
to have been going on forever. When viewed from the perspective of
the soul, life is fascinating and adventuresome. The reading tells of
her soul's life from the very beginning of creation to the present.
The story goes like this:
Leila's soul was first conceived in the mind of the Universal
Consciousness. She was among numerous lights that appeared in the
dark, infinite womb of the Creator's mind. It was the first dawn,
when the "morning stars sang together in the heavens," and she found
herself awake and filled with wonder. In this early morning light her
virgin consciousness would have been so near to the infinite,
omnipotent mind of her Creator that the two were as one. Now, within
the original Oneness were countless individual points of
consciousness with free will. Within them were the innate urges of
their Creator's desire for companionship and creative expression, two
celestially primal drives that would remain an influence within them
forever. The angels must have looked upon these cosmic toddlers with
justifiable apprehension. Like children they would have to learn to
handle and value the treasures of this angelic home with care, but
until they learned this, what would the heavens be like? Chaos was a
very real potential. It must have quickly become apparent to the
angels that their home would never be the same again.
Flush with life, their minds ablaze with wonder and imbued with the
essence of their Creator, these fledgling gods began to move, to
touch, to seek out and look through the endless fathoms of the
Cosmos. As a child would explore everything she found before her,
Leila and the others peered into the many and varied mansions of
their Father's house. Wonders upon wonders were to be found
everywhere their young minds turned.
Leila's wonder brought her into the environs of our present solar
system. When she fully arrived here, the Earth was still cooling and
life was just beginning to stir in its waters and gases. Leila's
first appearance was not an incarnation, for there were no Earthly
bodies to inhabit as we know them today. In this dawn of Earth's life
she was more like a spirit in the breeze, a voice in the wind as it
swept across the steaming waters &endash; a voice foretelling of the
coming of humanity.
But Earth was not the only planet she visited, nor was the third
dimension her primary level of consciousness. All the planets in this
star system provided her with unique perspectives and opportunities
in her young life. The entire universe with all its dimensions was
hers to enjoy. By doing so, she would grow in understanding and come
to be a true companion to the infinite one who created her.
Leila's soul was not alone. In this childhood of the Sons and
Daughters of God, she was among countless souls that turned their
attention on this little part of the universe.
Like all celestials, she possessed both male and female sexual
forces. Her "form" could best be described as a consciousness which
could in some moments be very defined and unique, focusing in on the
smallest places in the cosmos, and in other moments expand into the
Universal Consciousness, perceiving the entire cosmos. If we could
have gotten inside her, we would have seen how life was being
expressed, perceived, and experienced by this unique point in the
Whole.
This was Leila in the heavens, long before she made a home in the
Earth plane.
On an early visit to Earth, Leila and her fellow soul travelers saw a
strange quality in many of the souls who had been sojourning near
Earth. They appeared to be changing: they were more dense and heavy;
their consciousness seemed narrower, less universal. As she and her
companions studied this phenomenon they realized that the other souls
were gradually moving so deeply into the Earth's dimension that they
were separating from the cosmos, taking on the shapes and dimensions
of this new world and losing awareness of the other dimensions and
the higher, finer aspects of their own being. In other words, they
were no longer just visitors to the Earth, they were actually
beginning to take on the appearance of the animals indigenous to it
&endash; they had feathers, scales, horns and other appendages.
Actually, they were totally new creatures, terrestrial and heavy, and
communication with them became increasingly difficult.
To her amazement, these beings had developed a hierarchy among
themselves, setting some souls above others, something that was
totally alien to the celestial spheres where they all were children
of the same family and parentage, and considered equals.
Perhaps the most astonishing change was that the leaders of these
terrestrial groups were expounding a belief that there actually was
no central universal consciousness to whom they need remain attuned;
their source of life was not a celestial Creator, but simply the
impersonal force of organic material life. They encouraged each to
take what they wanted from life with little regard for others and no
regard for the whole of life. Successful survivors deserved to live
better and use the labor of the others because it would improve the
race. Power, superiority, force, strength, and survival of the
fittest were among their new beliefs.
Leila and her companions considered this to be nonsense. They
reasoned that some great distortion of perception had come over these
souls, and in order to see the truth again they needed to regain
their finer nature and form. However, in order for Leila and her
group to reach these souls, they would have to move deeper into the
Earth's dimensions themselves &endash; a move very few of them wanted
to make. After much reflection, they felt certain that they could
maintain their cosmic consciousness while communicating with these
terrestrial ones. They couldn't just leave these lost souls in such a
ridiculous state of awareness.
The plan was to first approach those who were least affected by the
Earth's physical dimension, re-awaken them to the truth, and convince
them to convey to the others that they were heading in the wrong
direction and needed to return to the higher dimensions of life and
consciousness.
Though Leila and her companions had visited Earth before, this was to
be their first three-dimensional sojourn. They made themselves known
to the terrestrial souls by projecting images of themselves using
light and thought, similar to a hologram. At first their image was a
sphere of illuminated consciousness from which their thoughts could
be conveyed to the terrestrial souls. But when it became apparent
that the terrestrial souls were too three-dimensionally focused to
relate to these images, Leila and her companions began to project a
form like human bodies today, only much lighter and less dense, yet
still much like a hologram formed by light and thought but with
increasing definition and focused location.
Using this image-form Leila began to sojourn for the first time in
what was to become the great continent of Atlantis. Here many souls
were living in various degrees of solidity and awareness. Since Leila
retained her attunement to the Universal Consciousness, she was
considered to be a goddess. Many came to her for guidance and help in
understanding what was happening to them and their companions, but
others, especially the aggressive leaders of the terrestrially bound
souls, challenged everything she and her companions held to be true
about the Universal One, the higher dimensions, and the true purpose
for life.
It quickly became apparent that this rescue mission was going to take
much longer than originally expected. The terrestrially possessed
companions were far more involved in this world than had first been
suspected. In fact, many of them were actually seeking to build
colonies here and indefinitely sojourn among the planet's trees,
mountains, and waters. They had also developed an almost idolic
interest in themselves and their own desires without any regard for
others and the Universal Forces.
This self-seeking energy would prove to be the first evil. The
followers and supporters of this self-centered movement would become
known as "The Children of Darkness" because their paths led toward
the abyss of separation and loss of contact with the Creator and
infinite oneness. Prior to these changes there had been only One
Force. Now there were two. The second was an evil that mounted life
for its own purposes, destroying everything in its way. The loss of
contact with a holistic source and sense of oneness with all life,
combined with the new paradigm reflected in the principles of
"survival of the fittest," established an entirely new and inherently
destructive dimension of consciousness.
Unfortunately, self-seeking was not the sole possession of the
terrestrially-bound souls. Every free-willed companion had within it
the potential to begin seeking its own way without concern for the
effect on others and the Whole. Free will and independent
consciousness were godly gifts, yet with just the slightest shift in
intent, these sublime wonders of the fledgling gods became weapons of
devils. Each of the companions had to struggle to subdue their
self-only desires in order to remain in harmony with the Whole and
the other companions.
Leila struggled hard to maintain her attunement and to aid those who
sought her guidance and counsel. But she could feel herself assuming
more and more the substance of the Earth, becoming heavier, and as
she battled with the terrestrial leaders, she found herself becoming
more willful and determined to force her views upon them. This
righteous and well-meaning desire was subtly giving strength to
forces of self-interest, but unlike some of her fellow companions,
Leila perceived the effects of willfulness, and resisted.
Her name was now Asamee. Hers was not exactly an individual name as
we have today; rather, it was the collective name for a soul group,
all of whom were called "Asamee." Individuality was not near what it
has become today. Differentiating one soul from another wasn't done;
all were still very much one. Those who felt as she did about life
and consciousness were called "The Children of the Law of One,"
because of their insistence that there was only One Force in the
universe, and souls were the children of the One. They also taught
"The Law of the One," which included a principle that actions produce
reactions, an idea that the terrestrials considered absurd and just
another attempt to keep them from doing whatever they wanted.
According to the Cayce reading, one of the souls who was with Asamee
in these times was called Amilius. This soul would later become known
as Jesus of Nazareth. His story weaves in and out of Leila's and is a
fascinating one in itself. Edgar Cayce's soul also connects with many
of Leila's lives.
In these very early times on the planet, Amilius perceived the
disastrous change that had come over his fellow souls, resulting in
their becoming the terrestrial ones. He came to the conclusion that
things had gotten beyond the level of a brief flirtation with the
Earth; it was now time to develop a long-term plan for dealing with
the situation. On this point, many of the Children of the Law of One
disagreed or had other ideas about how better to deal with the
problem. Thus, for the first time, a difference of opinion arose
within the ranks of the Children. Amilius, his intentions pure and
his vision clear, was attuned to the Universal Consciousness, and
most of the Children supported his perceptions, some begrudgingly,
others wholeheartedly, but of course, some resisted them
strongly.
Amilius perceived that if this loss of celestial consciousness could
happen to one soul, it could happen to any soul; therefore, the
problem needed to be faced, the temptation needed to be overcome, not
avoided. Furthermore, the root of the problem was not the Earth and
its unique form of life, but the struggle within each soul to learn
to use its godliness in such a way as to be all it was meant to be
and yet not destroy itself and other life in the process. Key to this
problem was the soul's separation anxiety as it became more
self-conscious and less universally conscious, causing it to lose
purpose and identity with anything or anyone. This occurred in the
celestial realms, but was more accentuated in the Earth. Therefore,
it was assumed that the Earth was the best place in which to conquer
the problem.
Amilius was making a commitment to enter the Earth and live among the
lost ones to somehow overcome its destructive influences. He believed
that if self-consciousness and its resulting sense of separation
could be overcome, it could be overcome here as well as anywhere
else. And once overcome, it would no longer have any power over the
Children, the future companions of God; they would know the truth and
they would be free.
Some among Amilius' group wanted to leave these Earthlings to wallow
in their own sins and delusions. Others doubted their own ability to
resist the temptations that had so possessed the lost souls. For in
addition to dealing with this problem of one's own inner temptations
and struggles, they were going to have to deal with the terrestrial
souls who had now become aggressive, lawless, and physically
powerful. To attempt to live among them was not only spiritually,
mentally and emotionally dangerous, it was physically dangerous. Some
of the Children also pointed out that there were many complications
involved in this Earth problem, so many complications and
complexities that a real solution might well be impossible. Perhaps
they would just be throwing good souls after bad if they attempted to
enter and subdue this world.
With all of these hazards in mind and in spite of much bickering
among the Children, Asamee and her fellow souls joined Amilius and
began to set up a system whereby the lost ones could regain their
heavenly consciousness and, along with the Children of the Law of
One, learn to overcome their potential for evil. It was a grand
endeavor, filled with that spirit that is only found in the faithful,
the hopeful, the positive ones. Little did they know just how
formidable their adversary was, both inwardly and outwardly.
First on their list was to prepare a new physical form that would
allow the companions of the Creator to sojourn in the Earth with some
semblance of their true cosmic nature, and yet was based on sound
principles for functioning well in the third dimension. The animal
forms were ill-suited for celestial endeavors and actually added to
their problems with perception and understanding. Furthermore, their
sexual oneness had been eroded by the natural duality of the planet,
causing them to accentuate one aspect of their sexual forces (male or
female) and subdue the other (the respective male or female
opposite). No longer were they androgynous beings. Now they were
either predominantly masculine or feminine in appearance and
function. Physically, then, their new Earthly form would need to
reflect these changes by being either male or female. Asamee and her
fellow "double-sexed" companions began the work of creating forms for
these souls, male and female, separating their double-sexed natures
into single-sexed physical projections. Amilius was the first to
completely achieve this. According to the reading, Amilius' feminine
counterpart was the legendary Lilith, first woman of the Earth.
Remember that Atlantis was the physical setting for all of these
struggles and the subsequent work and commitment. Many souls were
involved, and Leila interacted with most of them, their lives weaving
in and out of hers throughout her incarnations. In some cases, they
built strong, lasting relationships that were forever a blessing to
them. In other cases, they built disagreements, misunderstandings,
and distrust that haunted them whenever their paths crossed.
As this work continued, Leila withdrew from the Earth to prepare
herself to be a channel through which the Children of the Law of One
could enter into these newly developed humanoid bodies. She chose to
accentuate her feminine forces and subdue her masculine, and
throughout her many incarnations never changed her mind, remaining
female in each.
These early periods in the Earth had gone on for an enormously long
time. According to Cayce's reading, the entrance of souls in and
around the Earth realms began 4.6 billion years ago! The first
movement into animal-like forms began in Mu, or Lemuria, 12 million
years ago. The activities in Atlantis began in 210,000 BC, using
bodies that were more like light and thought forms. About 50,700 BC,
the huge continent of Mu had disappeared beneath the seas, and
Atlantis began to break into five islands from violent earthquakes.
Leila had sojourned here as Asamee for much of the early period, but
was now preparing to return to Earth about 12,000 BC, as the last
island of Atlantis, Posiedia, sank into the sea and a new era
began.
This would be her first true incarnation, because she was actually
going to enter and live inside a physical female body for the first
time. It was not a haphazard event. Many of the souls with whom she
had worked in Atlantis were already incarnate, preparing for her
incarnation.
Conditions in the Earth had changed dramatically. The ancient lands
of Mu, Oz, Og, Zu, and Atlantis were gone, and the new lands of
India, Egypt, Yucatan, and others were beginning. In five different
regions, in five different races, in five different nations, souls
entered en masse to begin the long journey through this world. The
game plan was for each of the five races to develop a strength and
overcome a weakness of the physical world. Each was to accentuate one
of the five human senses, perfecting it. The brown race was to
perfect the sense of smell; the red, touch; the black, taste; the
white, sight; and the yellow, hearing. The initial location of the
brown race was India, the Carpathian mountains (but at this early
period in Earth, the Andes mountains in South America today were
united with Carpathian, according to Cayce). The location of the red
race was Atlantis, the black was Nubia (southern Egypt and Sudan
today), the white was the Caucasus mountains, and the yellow was the
Gobi (not a desert in those times).
Leila was among those souls charged with developing the white race.
Their original center was in the Caucasus Mountains, though many of
them migrated into what today would be called Asia Minor, Europe, and
northern Africa, specifically Egypt. In Egypt Edgar Cayce's soul had
returned from the Atlantis times to incarnated as a high-priest named
Ra Ta, and many souls working closely with him were preparing for
Leila's entry. Hers was to be a very special event, for she had the
potential to manifest the optimal characteristics of a true, pure,
human-type physical body. Many of the bodies in all races had been
contaminated and distorted by animal characteristics that lingered
from the early days of the terrestrial ones. To produce a perfect
body for the companions, one had to use the natural genetic laws in
combination with a clear mental image of the desired result. In those
days the mind was more powerful than physical forces. However, there
was nothing to prevent the genetically improved body from sexually
mingling with another body less purely human, or more strongly
animalistic, ruining everything all over again.
These were unusual times. There were no families, no parents, no
agreed upon laws &endash; just millions and millions of souls in
varying degrees of consciousness, with different motives and desires,
and physical bodies with mixed animal and humanoid features. Two main
groups existed: the celestially aware companions and the
terrestrially focused ones. Their proximity to one another helped the
terrestrial ones to recall their former condition but it lowered the
awareness of the celestial ones.
Despite the temptations and difficulties, Ra Ta and his co-workers
had prepared themselves and their bodies carefully. They had selected
a male and female who were genetically, as well as mentally, the best
among them. They had been developed, preserved, and finally brought
together for the conception of a third body, one that would add to
the numbers of perfected bodies, ideal for celestial beings to
incarnate.
Leila had also well prepared herself. She had sojourned in the
celestial environs with as pure an attunement to the universal
Oneness as she could possibly manage. Her attunement was not what it
had once been, when her life and consciousness were one with the
Creator. Too much had come between her and the deep stillness of the
Universal Consciousness, but it was an attunement sufficient to make
her a rare soul among Earth-bound souls and to bring a glimpse to
others of what it had been like to be a morning star in that now
distant dawn.
Ra Ta anxiously watched as the newborn was being received from the
womb and as it was being cleansed and prepared for presentation. His
eyes searched for the tell tale signs of beastliness or celestialness
and the true characteristics of a pure human form. Again and again he
scanned every detail of her body. Nothing, absolutely nothing was
distorted or contaminated; she was truly ideal. Clear sharp eyes,
pure skin, no fur, scales, or feathers, very little hair, no tail
&endash; the priest could hardly believe his eyes. Her body was a
perfect human form for all heavenly souls to use during their
incarnations in the new world. And, she was also female, capable of
producing many more bodies with her genetic perfection. As he pulled
away to reflect on the potential of the event, others with him pushed
their way in to see for themselves.
As mentioned briefly, the celestially-aware companions entered in
five different races. This was originally accomplished more in
consciousness than in form, for their bodies did not immediately
reflect true, pure human qualities but had to be developed toward
this aim. At this early stage in man's entry into the Earth, human
qualities were more mental images than physical forms, and in order
to convert them into physical reality, it was essential to work
within the laws of evolution and genetics native to the planet.
Ra Ta and his companions had finally achieved the perfected white
body (originating in the Caucasus areas, but perfected in Egypt). The
red had already been perfected (Atlantis), as well as the brown (Mu),
the black (Nubia) and the yellow (Gobi). Leila had been the soul that
entered this first purely Caucasian body. Her new name was,
appropriately, Tar Ello, "body of light." It was a high achievement
for Leila. She gave hope and inspiration to many through her
beautiful reflection of one of the five aspects of the heavenly form.
Man was no longer a beast of the world, but a descendant from another
world, a beautiful descendant. Now the work of the ascension was
ahead of them, a long, slow return to their life before the world
was.
Though Tar Ello had accomplished much in achieving her first flesh
body, it would prove to be a very difficult incarnation for her. She
was looked upon with awe and reverence, and viewed and judged by her
outer form more than her inner being. She felt special, but also more
alone than she had ever felt in the higher dimensions. Even some of
her closest companions in the heavens were now so in awe of her that
they set her above themselves, no longer swapping counsel and
support, but expecting all the wisdom and strength to come from her
alone. Others, who had been her friends and colleagues in the
Atlantian sojourn, now resented her new physical superiority, feeling
that they deserved the honor as much as she.
Leila began to long for the early times when no soul was greater than
another and all shared together as equals and companions. On Earth
everything was measured and judged by appearance and power. It was a
lonely place to live, each within one's own body, separated from the
others, measured by outer qualities, and segregated accordingly. Ra
Ta perceived the girl's sadness, though ever so subtle it was, for
she kept her mission above her personal feelings. He encouraged her
to take part in the ceremonies of the temples and find comfort in
prayer and deep meditation. Ax-Tell and his son Ax-Tellus, both
remnants of the Atlantian Civilization and members of the perfected
red race, had long understood the problems of loneliness and
separation in the new world. Seeing this same feeling in the eyes of
this little white child and in so many others, they encouraged the
high-priest Ra Ta and the king of the land, Ararat, to consider a new
living arrangement for souls while incarnate in the Earth. Instead of
living in medium to large groups, their plan was that each group
would break into small sub-groups, consisting of one male and one
female whose offspring lived with them. Together they would form a
support group for each of their members, their own flesh and blood
being the bonding force. It was the beginning of the nuclear family,
as we know it, and the sense of support that came from being
someone's child, sibling, spouse, or parent. This structure would
also reflect the heavenly realm where the children of the
father-mother God companioned in a close, nurturing environment.
It was an excellent idea, but Tar Ello was a temple virgin, and there
was no way Ra Ta was going to agree to allow her to live in a
separate dwelling with her natural parents amid all the other souls
of mixed blood and morality; this world was still too savage and
beastly for that. She was too rare, too special. But those close to
Tar Ello knew she carried a deep sadness and loneliness within her.
It would be nearly impossible for her to be the perfect temple
priestess and bear perfect children like a breading machine, as the
high priest Ra Ta so desperately wanted. Nevertheless, she struggled
hard to maintain and carry out her mission. She wanted to help make
flesh a temporary home for celestials, and drew inspiration and
guidance from her temple studies and duties and the many teachers and
guides associated with this great effort. One of these guides was
Hermes, called by many the "Three-times Majestic One" because of his
perfection in physically, mentally, and celestially. He was, in fact,
the soul who had been called Amilius in Atlantis, returned again.
Continuing his work toward resurrecting the Earth-bound souls to
their former state in the heavens, he was now here in ancient Egypt.
As it is commonly known among the students of mystery today, Hermes
was the major influence behind the building of the Pyramids and the
storing of the ancient records in secret chambers. Knowing that the
descent of the souls would take them deep into the world of matter
and physical reality, he commissioned that these monuments be built
as reminders of the former realms that lie beyond physical death. But
they were more than monuments in those early days. Leila and her
fellow Children of the One used some of these structures for their
initiations into the true realities and purposes for life, truths
that were fast becoming myths and legends. Through her close
relationship with Ra Ta and Hermes, she continued to be one of the
major female forces in the Earth realm.
Unfortunately, after Ra Ta and Hermes left Earth for a rest in the
deeper Oneness, Tar Ello fell from the high pedestal she had so
sincerely accepted. She left the temple and became the companion of
Exderenemus, another remnant of Atlantis and the red race, and a soul
with whom she would interact in many of her incarnations. These
dramatic changes in Tar Ello's life and position astonished those who
worshipped her and caused those who resented her to take every
opportunity to discredit her. All of this left Leila's soul deeply
distressed. What had begun as a grand endeavor was ending in a
purposeless mess. Eventually, she withdrew from her body, from this
place of sadness, and sought to rid herself of the memory of the
whole experience. She withdrew to the realms of Saturn, the realm of
dramatic change, and there purged herself of all remnants of the
flesh. From here she withdrew even further, her spirit rising higher
and higher until she could feel the comfort of Oneness. Here in the
heavenly spheres she bathed and rejuvenated herself until once again
she and her Creator were in touch with each other.
As Earth keeps time, it wasn't long before the soul of Hermes, the
priest Ra Ta, and Leila's other companions beckoned her to join them
in another visit to the environs of Earth and yet another attempt at
overcoming its peculiar influences while helping the
terrestially-bound souls reawaken themselves. It was too much a part
of Leila's deepest wishes for her to refuse this goodwill mission,
and since the Earth afforded her the opportunity to mend her
disappointing sojourn in Egypt, she readily accepted the challenge.
Off she went, revitalized and ready to make all aright.
Together with her little band of like-minded souls, Leila lived
through many, many lifetimes in the Earth and in the realms beyond.
Members of this loose-knit band were not always in agreement with
each other or even considerate to one another, but, as is so often
true of families, they were a unit, even at times, a team. One of
their most significant incarnations came during the time of Christ in
Palestine.
In this incarnation Leila and Ra Ta were brother and sister. Her name
was Nimmuo and his was Lucius. Both were prominent members of the
church at Laodicea. The setting, as many of us know, was the Holy
Land during the occupation of the Roman Legions. That particular
portion of Asia had been under the control of the Greek Empire for a
very long time and had only recently been conquered by the Romans.
Some welcomed the Romans over the Greeks; others felt that they had
simply traded one master for another.
Nimmuo's father was of Roman descent and had two wives, one Grecian
and one Hebrew. Nimmuo was the child of the Greek mother while her
brother Lucius was the son of the Jewish mother. For very practical
reasons the armies of Rome did not want trouble with the people they
conquered; they simply couldn't afford to keep expending any more of
their resources governing these distant lands. Because of these
practical needs and their policy of working with and supporting local
people who showed signs of peaceful co-existence with them, Nimmuo's
family was given many financial and personal freedoms that were rare
in those times. Her father, with his Jewish wife and close
connections with the Jewish communities in the North, was considered
to be of great benefit to the Empire. Nevertheless, Nimmuo and her
family held tightly to the tenets and morals of their Hebrew faith,
and though they interacted with the Roman leaders, shunned the
lewdness and immorality that the Romans brought to the Holy Land.
As the activities and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth reached their
homeland in the North, the family began to come under their
influence. To the Children of the Law of One, Jesus' teachings were a
balm to their weary souls and a beacon pointing the way to a
forgotten consciousness and life. And when Jesus' blossoming ministry
abruptly changed during the periods of his trial and crucifixion, and
they heard the subsequent reports that spread across the land about
what had actually happened in the last hour of the crucifixion, the
reports of his rising from death three days later and meeting with
the disciples at the Sea of Tiberius, the entire family was caught up
in wonderment and interest.
So Nimmuo, then barely sixteen years old, and her older brother, who
was now a leading minister in their synagogue, set off to the south
to learn everything they could about these reports. Nimmuo wanted to
meet and talk with everyone who had come in contact with Jesus.
Because she and her brother traveled under the protection and support
of the Romans, many along the way were skeptical of their true faith
and their loyalty to Israel and Jesus' teachings. However, the
sincerity and faithfulness of these two northerners was so genuine
that the people perceived this and shared with them the many stories
about the rabbi's life and teachings.
They journeyed through the Holy Land, across the Sea of Galilee, down
to those lands in Jordan through Perea to Bethany and the house of
Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, and then into the City of Jerusalem
itself. They met Mary the Mother of Jesus and the rest of the family
that had gathered under the disciple John's roof, as he had been
instructed by Jesus from the cross to care for them. In Bethany they
heard the story about Mary Magdalene's cleansing from her sins and
Martha's devotion and tireless efforts to care for everyone's needs.
Straight from Lazarus himself they heard about his death &endash;
what he thought and felt during the four days that his dead body lay
in the tomb. He spoke of what it was like in the realms between
Earth-life and Celestial-Life and how he had heard and felt the
movement within himself when the voice called, "Lazarus, come forth!"
All of this affected Nimmuo to her very soul, making contact with
those old sensations of closeness to her Creator. She listened to the
reports of how people had been healed by Jesus' laying his hands on
them or merely speaking to them, how they had eaten bread that had
been created by the prayers of the rabbi. She and her brother were
forever changed by the recounting of these experiences which kept
them in rapt attention over and over again. Hearing these reports
first-hand meant that Nimmuo and Lucius would be able to share these
reports in great detail with their family, friends, and synagogue
members back in Laodicea who until now had had to settle for
translations through many tongues.
However, these times of enlightenment and awakening were not to pass
peacefully. The Romans began to move against this growing new group
that they considered to be nothing more than troublemakers. Nimmuo
was present at one such event when James, the brother of Jesus, was
chosen as head of the new church along with Peter. She witnessed how
the other James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee, had so
stirred the spirit of the crowds that the Romans became afraid of the
mass meeting and attacked with swords drawn, killing John's brother
and many others during the riot, and eventually exiling John to
Patmos. These two sons of Zebedee had long been called "the sons of
thunder," and the Romans had had enough of them. Peter was arrested
and taken to Rome to be executed. From this moment on the followers
of Jesus would be arrested and persecuted by the authorities.
With the scattering of the disciples and friends, Nimmuo and her
brother returned to Laodicea and the other synagogues of the north.
Here they both grew in power and position because of their travels,
knowledge, and understanding about this great event. Deep within,
Nimmuo felt the essence of those things she heard in the homes of
Mary, Martha, Lazarus, and the Mother. As so often in her previous
lives, her soul yearned for the Creator, for that soothing sense of
the Divine Presence that she had always loved. Now, amid all the
daily activities of this world and its limited perspective on the
celestial life, she applied herself to the work that had begun many
thousands of years earlier in that lost and forgotten land of
Atlantis.
Remember, everyone with whom she presently associated had been
involved with her in Atlantis and Egypt, and several lifetimes
inbetween. Amilius, that soul who had been so attuned in the early
periods that he committed himself to the rescue of the lost souls,
and had been Hermes in Egypt, was the very person they now called
Jesus. In this Divine incarnation he prepared the final phase of
salvation for all Earth-bound souls. He and the heavenly Father were
one throughout this life, not separate. This showed to all who could
still see with their celestial eyes that reunion with the Creator
could be done. His words came from the Universal Consciousness, our
heavenly Father who created us in the very beginning:
"You are not of this world." (John 3:12)
"Is it not written in your laws that you are gods? Yet you say...
'You blaspheme' because I say I am the Son of God." (John
10:30-36)
"In my Father's house are many mansions ... I go to prepare a place
for you...And where I go you know, and you know the way." (John
14:2-4)
"I came forth from the Father and came into the world, now I leave
the world and go to the Father." (John 16:28)
"No man has ascended to heaven but he that first came down from
heaven..." (John 3:13)
These words and the stories she heard on her journey filled Nimmuo's
soul with a new fervor and determination to continue with the work.
Along with her brother and many others, she ministered to the needs
of the people, particularly those involved in the synagogue at
Laodicea. And when the synagogue or church, as it was now being
called, was nearly destroyed from within by a severe difference of
opinion on how best to judge what was right and what was wrong,
Nimmuo's serene and patient counsel kept the church from dividing in
two. She seemed to sense the inner meaning of the teachings and never
got lost in the many surface interpretations and dogmas to which man
so often binds others.
This was not an easy time for this soul. She was surrounded by the
very same souls who had seen her fall in Egypt, and many of them
doubted her new-found inspiration, suspecting she would once again
let them down. But they underestimated her determination to make
things right with all those souls she had once failed. This was her
opportunity and she seized it. With all the wisdom and strength
within her, she rose to the challenge and in so doing brought many
other souls a little higher.
Nimmuo lived a long and fulfilling life and withdrew to the peace of
the heavenly environs for a lengthy period of meditation, letting the
truths of that incarnation permeate deeply into her consciousness.
She was a far wiser child of God than the one who taught in Atlantis
and fell in Egypt. She had seen the face of the beast and tamed it,
at least most of it. But there was a little more yet to deal with, as
she would soon learn.
After sojourning in the heavens for many Earth years, the soul of
Leila returned for an incarnation that was most uncharacteristic. The
Earth was now a major center of physical activity and densely
populated. All of life and the universe were now viewed almost
totally from a physical perspective. The history of the Earth
established and supported the concept of physical reality being the
primary reality, and nearly everyone lived by this guiding concept.
Business and commerce, religion and government, love and money had
all become the powerful structures in which most lived. Into this
world, so very different from that earlier world, the soul of Leila
incarnated as one of the daughters of a wealthy and prominent
Englishman. Her name was Marge Olglethorp. She learned her role well
and even enjoyed it. Parasols, long, whirling hoop skirts, fancy
buggies and parties with all kinds of foods and beverages were the
style of the day. Life was just a bowl of cherries, ripe for the
eating and enjoying. Amazingly, Leila, as Marge, took to this fun
little lifetime quite well. No great mission beyond pomp and
pleasure; no great challenges to overcome beyond style and good taste
&endash; life was to be lived to its fullest.
On one of the family's journeys to America, Marge found herself
caught up in the role of a southern belle and was well received by
the ladies and gentlemen of this land of willows and moss, huge
plantations and wealth beyond measure. Here she lived the life of a
Georgia peach, with that special touch of breeding that is forever
English. Ra Ta was not involved in this lifetime, but Exderenemus,
her companion in ancient Egypt, was. In fact, he had incarnated with
her in the Palestine lifetime when she was Nimmuo, but the two of
them did not develop a close relationship. In the present incarnation
in England and the colonial South they met and danced but a terrible
disagreement ended their relationship with such bitterness that they
wouldn't speak to each other.
How did this carefree lifetime become part of the experience of a
soul who was once the goddess of Atlantis, the perfection of ancient
Egypt, and a minister at Laodicea? The Eastern teachings of
reincarnation include a concept that souls live a carefree
incarnation about every six incarnations &endash; a vacation, if you
will, from the celestial mission. The soul of Leila was enjoying a
much needed break from her many serious lifetimes of devotion, trial,
and hard lessons learned.
It was after her incarnation as Marge that she reincarnated as Leila
Cayce, the little girl who died at two and a half years of age, and
subsequently reincarnated as Barbara Murray, the lady who found
herself listening to this amazing story as told by "the sleeping
prophet" Edgar Cayce. Barbara was a serene, elegant woman who devoted
much of her time and energy to the work of the International Red
Cross and Edgar Cayce's little organization. In the present lifetime,
Barbara married Exderenemus again, now called Ryan Simons. The Cayce
reading warned them not to let this relationship end like their
previous one. Amilius was now her Christ, having become one with the
Father again and resurrected to prepare a place for all souls. The
three of them, Barbara, Ryan, and Edgar, had long ago dedicated
themselves and their lives to the mission of awakening souls to their
celestial nature and life. They continued to live and teach the
mystery that we are all celestial beings descended from heavenly
realms through a long and arduous journey into this realm of physical
reality, and are destined to again return from it to the heavens.
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