A.R.E. Meeting for 4/27/26

Leader: Greg (for Cindi

Five faithful Cayce followers spent another week on “The Cross and the Crown” chapter. We read the collected works of David McMillin for that chapter and studied an article on Jesus’ karma. In that article, we learned that Jesus may have had an incarnation in the land of the setting sun.

 Experiment: Reflect on whether you have experienced the joy and happiness that comes with the crown of glory and have expressed that joy and happiness in your daily living. Take time to rejoice in the accomplishments (great or small) of meeting and overcoming the crosses in your life.

The Fourfold Purpose of Life - From Plant Growth to Spiritual Union

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READING 900-47 EXPLAINED

This reading from 900-47 is explaining growth in levels of life—how consciousness and purpose expand from plants, to animals, to humans, and finally to the spiritual state. Cayce is showing that life is not random, but moves through stages of increasing awareness and responsibility. Each level adds something new. He calls this “purpose life,” meaning the number of active dimensions or functions operating in that being.

The reading says: “Plant life a one purpose, animal life a two purpose, man a three purpose, spiritual a four purpose.” This means that a plant expresses only one main purpose. Its life is simple: growth, reception, and response to natural law. A plant reaches toward light, takes in water, grows from seed, and reproduces according to its design. It does not choose morally or reflect consciously. It follows pattern. Its psychic force is present, but in a very basic form—life energy expressing itself through growth and form. The plant is alive, but it is not self-aware in the human sense. Its purpose is singular: to be and to grow according to its created nature.

Then Cayce says animal life is a “two purpose life.” This means animals add another level beyond simple growth. Animals not only live and grow—they also move with desire, instinct, emotion, and relationship to surroundings. They seek food, protection, mating, territory, and affection. There is sensation and reaction. They have impulse and instinctive consciousness. So plant life has life-force, but animal life adds desire-force. There is now movement toward something, not just passive growth. The creature responds emotionally and instinctively to life.

Then comes man, which Cayce calls a “three purpose life.” Human beings have plant life (physical growth), animal life (emotion, desire, instinct), but also mind, self-awareness, moral choice, and will. This is the great division. Man can ask, “Who am I? Why am I here? What should I do?” Humans can choose against instinct. They can sacrifice, create, reason, worship, and rebel. This is why man carries responsibility. He is not just living—he is deciding. The third purpose is conscious will and soul development. This is where spiritual responsibility begins.

Finally, Cayce says spiritual life is “fourfold or purpose life.” This is when the soul fully awakens to its relationship with God. It is beyond merely body, instinct, and intellect. It includes spiritual union, divine awareness, and eternal purpose. The fourth purpose is not just knowing about life, but knowing life in God. It is consciousness aligned with the Creator. This is the return journey of the soul—to move from earthly awareness into spiritual realization. It is what Jesus pointed to when He said, “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee” (John 17:21). The spiritual life is not escape from life, but the fulfillment of life.

When Cayce says “these corrections should enter in in their proper sphere,” he means each level must be understood in its right place. We should not confuse plant consciousness with human consciousness, or animal instinct with spiritual awareness. Each sphere has its own laws and purpose. Growth happens in order. You do not begin with the spiritual crown—you grow upward through the levels. First life, then desire, then mind, then spirit. Just as a temple is built from foundation to holy place, the soul develops through ordered stages.

So the message of 900-47 is that life unfolds in layers:
Plant is existence: life simply being, growing, receiving, following natural law.

Animal is desire: instinct, movement, appetite, emotion, seeking survival.
Man is choice: self-awareness, will, moral decision, responsibility.
Spirit is union with God: divine consciousness, alignment, oneness with the Creator.

The goal is not to reject the lower levels, but to bring them into harmony under the highest purpose. The body serves the soul, the soul serves the Spirit, and the Spirit returns to the Father. This is the full fourfold life.

READING 900-47

...where there comes the division, or the presentation of psychic force as presented through plant or vegetable life, this should be presented as the one purpose as is set. Where we have the entrance of the animal life the two purpose life. Where with the entrance of man the three purpose life. Where with the entrance into the spiritual the fourfold or purpose life. With this correction this would be very good, yet these corrections should enter in in their proper sphere.

(Q) What do you mean by entering in their proper sphere?

(A) Where they enter. Plant life a one purpose, animal life a two purpose, man a three purpose, spiritual a four purpose.

The Barrier Between the Conscious and Subconscious Mind

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READING 900-25 EXPLAINED

In reading 900-25, Edgar Cayce is explaining why people often feel separated from their deeper spiritual guidance. He says there is a “barrier” between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. The conscious mind is the everyday thinking mind—the part that reasons, worries, analyzes, doubts, and makes decisions. The subconscious mind is deeper. It is the soul-level mind, the spiritual memory, the inner knowing that is closer to God and truth.

Cayce says this barrier is created mainly by the human will trying too hard to control everything. He says, “The entity, through will, reasons with the condition. Hence the barrier as created.” This means when we overthink, overanalyze, and try to force understanding, we block the deeper guidance already within us. The conscious mind keeps interrupting the quiet voice of the subconscious. Instead of listening, it argues. Instead of trusting, it demands proof. That reasoning itself becomes the wall.

He gives the example of sleep. When the body begins to fall asleep, the conscious mind starts to relax and the subconscious naturally begins to rise. But if a person keeps trying to stay mentally awake, keeps checking physical reactions, or keeps forcing awareness, the barrier stays strong. He says, “The continual thought as is carried, to see physical reaction, creates barrier.” In simple words, if you keep watching yourself too much, you prevent the deeper mind from flowing naturally. This is why true prayer, meditation, and even sleep require surrender rather than control.

He also warns that some people try to force spiritual experiences in unhealthy ways—through mental imbalance or careless practices. He calls this “indiscreet condition” and says it can wrongly submerge the conscious mind instead of harmonizing it. This is not true spiritual development. True growth is not destroying the conscious mind, but bringing conscious mind, subconscious mind, body, and soul into harmony.

The solution, Cayce says, is “the One-ness of Mind, Soul and Body.” This is the real goal. When mind, soul, and body are aligned, the subconscious can guide naturally without confusion. Then the person becomes “spiritual minded, subconscious minded, subconscious directed, spiritual directed.” This means the person begins to live from inner truth rather than outer fear. Decisions become clearer. Peace becomes stronger. Guidance becomes more natural. The soul begins to lead instead of the restless surface mind.

The subconscious, according to Cayce, is always working. He calls it “those ever directing” forces that give “light and development to the soul.” The subconscious is not asleep—it is constantly connected to spiritual law. The problem is not that God is silent, but that the conscious mind is too noisy.

So the purpose is not to kill the conscious mind, but to train it into trust, stillness, and surrender. Prayer helps. Meditation helps. quiet reflection helps. Love helps. Faith helps. When the conscious mind stops fighting and begins cooperating, the barrier becomes thinner. Then a person begins to live from deeper wisdom.

In simple terms: the conscious mind asks, “What should I do?” The subconscious already knows. The barrier is fear, overthinking, and control. The path is oneness, trust, and spiritual alignment. Then the soul can lead the life instead of the surface mind leading alone.

Conscious Mind vs Subconscious Mind

The conscious mind is the part of you that is awake, thinking, choosing, and reacting right now. It is your daily awareness. It reasons, compares, judges, plans, worries, and makes decisions. It deals with the outer world—what you see, hear, touch, and experience. When you ask yourself, “What should I do today?” or “Why did that happen?”—that is the conscious mind working.

The subconscious mind is deeper. It is the hidden inner mind beneath the surface thoughts. It stores memory, emotion, habits, impressions, beliefs, and spiritual influence. It keeps working even when you are asleep. It affects your feelings, instincts, dreams, and deep reactions. According to Cayce, it is much closer to the soul and to God’s guidance. It is not just memory storage—it is the deeper spiritual pattern behind your life.

You can picture it like this: The conscious mind is like the captain standing on the deck of a ship, looking at the waves and deciding where to turn.

The subconscious mind is like the deep engine room below, where the real power is moving the ship.

The captain can give directions, but if the engine room is full of wrong programming, fear, wounds, or hidden beliefs, the ship will still move according to that deeper force.

The conscious mind says: “I want peace.”

The subconscious mind may hold: “I am not safe.”

So even if the conscious mind wants peace, the subconscious keeps producing anxiety until it is healed.

Cayce taught that the conscious mind is the chooser, but the subconscious mind is the builder. The conscious mind plants seeds through thought, choice, prayer, and action. The subconscious grows those seeds into character, habits, and destiny.

He often described it like this:

Conscious mind is the present awareness

Subconscious mind is soul memory plus inner pattern

Superconscious is the connection to the Divine

The goal is not to let the subconscious control blindly, but to bring all three into harmony—mind, body, and soul. When the conscious mind aligns with truth, the subconscious becomes purified, and spiritual guidance becomes clearer.

In simple terms: The conscious mind is what you are thinking. The subconscious mind is what is really shaping you underneath your thinking. One speaks loudly. The other rules quietly.

READING 900-25

(Q) Explain that barrier between conscious and subconscious mind. How may we eliminate it to allow the subconscious to direct?

(A) As would best be illustrated in this: We (individuals) find in the earth's plane those mental conditions wherein the conscious and subconscious would manifest by some given suggestion. The entity, through will, reasons with the condition. Hence the barrier as created. Again, we have as exemplified, or shown, in this: Any indiscreet condition, as regarding the mental development, that would be made as to submerge the subconscious forces, then the barrier that would bring the direct condition in the given condition. As we find when the mental forces are in that condition of submerging the conscious forces, the entity attempting to create the consciousness of the transition, creates barrier. As we would find illustrated in these conditions: As the physical body sinks into that state wherein slumber of the physical body takes hold of physical conditions, and the body becomes submerged into the earthly subconscious, the continual thought as is carried, to see physical reaction, creates barrier.

Now, to overcome such conditions, bring about the consciousness, the One-ness of Mind, Soul and Body, that when such submerged conditions are enacted, we find the subconscious takes the direction in the physical plane. Then such an entity is given, as spiritual minded, subconscious minded, subconscious directed, spiritual directed individuals. The more this becomes manifested, the more the entity may gain the impressions, the actual conditions of the subconscious forces, those ever directing, that gives the light and development to the soul's forces from the physical plane.

The Soul's Journey Through Planetary Spheres and Return to God

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READING 900-25 EXPLAINED

In reading 900-25, Cayce is explaining that the soul does not simply live one life on earth and then immediately go to heaven. Instead, the soul moves through many stages of development, passing through different “spheres” or conditions of consciousness, often symbolized by planets in our solar system. He says, “again, and again, and again return from one to another, until they are prepared to meet the everlasting Creator.” This means soul growth is a long process. The soul learns, fails, corrects, returns, and grows until it becomes ready for full union with God.

Cayce compares this to what he calls the “Relativity of Force.” This means everything in creation is connected by laws of cause and effect. Thoughts, desires, actions, and choices create spiritual consequences. When a person lives in harmony with divine law—love, truth, patience, mercy—the soul grows upward. But when a person lives in hatred, selfishness, pride, or unnatural desires, the soul creates imbalance and must go through correction. Nothing is random. Every action shapes the soul’s next stage of development.

One of the strongest images in this reading is Saturn. Cayce says, “the spiritual entity is banished unto Saturn, that condition… to which all insufficient matter is cast for the remoulding.” Saturn here is not just the physical planet—it represents a spiritual condition of discipline, correction, and rebuilding. It is like a refining place where the soul faces the results of its own wrong choices. Cayce gives examples: “such hate, such aggrandizement of the laws of the flesh, in any desire made unnatural.” These are conditions where the lower self rules instead of the higher self. When this happens, the soul must go through “remoulding,” meaning deep correction before continuing upward.

This is not punishment from an angry God. It is restoration. Saturn is like spiritual rehabilitation. Just as broken metal must be melted and reshaped, the soul must be re-formed when it becomes twisted by selfishness or destructive desire. God’s purpose is always redemption, not destruction. The soul is being prepared, not rejected.

Cayce then mentions other planetary spheres: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Earth, Uranus, Neptune. These are not simply astronomy lessons—they represent stages of soul development. Each sphere carries lessons. Mercury may reflect mental quickness and communication; Venus love and affection; Mars struggle and aggression; Jupiter wisdom and expansion; Earth choice in flesh; Uranus awakening; Neptune spiritual sensitivity. The soul moves through these influences as part of its education. It learns balance through experience.

But Cayce makes something very clear: “For in flesh must the entity manifest, and make the will One with the God.” Earth is the testing ground. The soul must come into physical life because only here, in flesh, with temptation, pain, desire, and choice, can true spiritual will be formed. Earth is where spirit proves itself. Jesus showed this perfectly—He lived in flesh and made His human will fully one with the Father. That is the pattern for every soul.

The goal is not merely to escape earth, but to transform within it. The soul must learn to let divine will rule human desire. That is salvation in Cayce’s language—not simply belief, but alignment. The soul must become so refined that it can move beyond this solar system into greater spiritual realms.

Cayce says eventually the soul passes “through Arcturus or Septimus.” Arcturus is described in other readings as a great spiritual gateway—a transition point between this solar system and higher dimensions of consciousness. It is like graduation. Once the soul has completed its lessons here, it moves beyond this system into wider creation. Cayce reminds us: “our system is only a small part.” Earth is only one classroom in a much greater universe of soul development.

So the whole message is this: life is school, earth is training ground, the planets are classrooms, Saturn is correction, Arcturus is graduation, and God is the final home. The soul moves “again, and again, and again” until it is fully prepared for union with the Creator.

This gives deep meaning to suffering and struggle. Difficult seasons may not be punishment but preparation. Failures are not final if they lead to transformation. God is not trying to condemn the soul but complete it. Every return, every challenge, every sphere is part of the soul’s long journey back into “the arms of beloved God.”

READING 900-25

(Q) Explain and illustrate, "In the spheres of many of the planets, within the same solar system, we find they are banished to certain conditions in the developing about the sphere from which they pass, and again, and again, and again return from one to another, until they are prepared to meet the everlasting Creator of our entire Universe, of which our system is only a small part."

(A) In this condition, we find much as is given in Relativity of Force. In this, again we find in this: The entity entering the earth's plane, and manifesting in the flesh, when such conditions are shown in the body that the spiritual entity is banished unto Saturn, that condition in the earth's solar system to which all insufficient matter is cast for the remoulding, as it were, for its passage through the development in earth's plane, or in the spheres to which the earth's relations adhere in the development of a spiritual or physical body. In this we find the relations as given from those spheres in the earth's sphere; that is, as in Mercury, as in Venus, as in Mars, as in Jupiter, as in Earth, as in Uranus, as in Neptune, and the chancing, or changing, as it were, from one development to another, until the entity passes from that solar system, or sphere, through Arcturus or Septimus, as we see. As would be illustrated in this: We find in the earth's plane that entity that manifests such hate, such aggrandizement of the laws of the flesh, in any desire made unnatural. These find their reclamation, their remoulding, their beginning again, in the spheres of Saturn's relative forces. Hence again pass through those spheres in which the entity (spiritual) must manifest, that it (the entity) may manifest the gained development through the earth's plane. For in flesh must the entity manifest, and make the will One with the God, or Creative Force, in the Universe, and as such development reaches that plane, wherein the development may pass into other spheres and systems, of which our (the earth's) solar system is only a small part; in this, then, is meant the entity must develop in that sphere until it (the entity) has reached that stage wherein it may manifest through the spiritual planes, as would be called from the relation to physical or fleshly plane.