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READING 2794-3 EXPLAINED:
This reading from Edgar Cayce is deeply focused on the power of will, soul identity, spiritual law, and the possibility of transformation. It presents human life as a continual choice between alignment with the Creative Force (God) or separation through selfishness, rebellion, and material obsession.
The opening statement is striking: “An Atlantean! One who will make a real success or a miserable failure.”
In Cayce’s framework, “Atlantean” often refers to souls with strong mental power, ambition, creativity, and intense individuality. Such souls usually carry both tremendous potential and tremendous danger. They can rise very high spiritually and materially, or they can become trapped in pride, cynicism, ego, and misuse of power. The reading says this entity could become either a “real success” or a “miserable failure” because powerful souls amplify whatever direction they choose.
The “Uranian influence” mentioned symbolizes unconventional thinking, rebellion, independence, originality, and unpredictability. Cayce says this makes the person appear “quite a cynic.” In other words, the individual may distrust people, question everything, become mentally critical, or feel dissatisfied with ordinary life. Yet Cayce does not condemn this tendency. Instead, he says the problem is not intelligence itself but the direction of the will.
One of the central ideas in the reading is: “Mind becomes the builder, the physical becomes the result.”
This means the outer life is gradually shaped by inner consciousness. Thoughts, ideals, motives, desires, and spiritual attitudes eventually become visible in behavior, character, relationships, and destiny. Cayce repeatedly teaches that spirit is the source, mind is the builder, and the physical world is the result. The important question is therefore not merely what a person does, but what spirit motivates the action.
The reading then moves into a profound explanation of identity and unity: “The Lord thy God is one. The self - as an individual entity, body, mind and soul - is one.”
Here Cayce is emphasizing wholeness. Human beings are not merely physical creatures. The body, mind, and soul are interconnected aspects of one living being. The soul itself is described as: “a child of God, or a thought, a corpuscle in the heart of God.”
This is a beautiful mystical idea. The soul originates in the Divine Life itself. Human beings are not separate from God in origin, though they may feel separated in consciousness. Yet the reading stresses that each soul has been given free will: “the entity… has been given a will to use the attributes of soul, mind and body to thine own purposes.”
This becomes the central theme of the reading: What will you do with your will?
The reading presents three possible paths:
Becoming a “true child” aligned with the Creative Force.
Becoming “wayward.”
Becoming “rebellious.”
The difference lies not in God’s love, but in how the individual applies their will. Cayce says spiritual destiny depends upon relationship and choice: “dependent upon the relationship or upon what ye do with thy will.”
This is why the reading repeatedly asks questions instead of giving commands: “Will ye make thy will one with the Creative Force?” “Will ye rebel and have thine own way?”
Life is portrayed as an active spiritual partnership. The soul is always choosing either cooperation with divine law or resistance to it.
The reading then explains what divine law actually is. Cayce reduces it to the two great commandments: “thou shalt love the Lord with all thy mind, thy heart and thy soul, and thy neighbor as thyself.”
This is not presented as mere religion or doctrine. Cayce describes it as an immutable spiritual law woven into reality itself. The way we treat others becomes the way we treat God: “the manner in which ye treat thy fellow man ye are treating thy Maker.”
And spiritual consequences operate through universal law: “The seed ye sow ye shall also reap.” “The measure with which ye mete to others must come back to thee.”
These are described as “immutable, unchangeable.” In other words, consciousness and action always generate consequences.
The reading then turns toward Christ as the pattern for human development. Cayce says humanity has drifted far from its ideal relationship with the Creative Forces, but a pattern has been given through Christ: “has passed through every temptation as thyself, but has shown Himself worthy.”
Christ becomes the model of complete alignment between human will and divine will. The invitation is not merely theological but inward and experiential: “Behold I stand at the door and knock. Open!”
Cayce interprets this spiritually and psychologically. The “door” is the inner consciousness, heart, and soul of the individual. God does not force entry. The person must choose openness: “Ye must open, ye must wish, ye must hope, ye must act…”
This is extremely important in Cayce’s philosophy. Spiritual growth requires active participation. Desire alone is not enough. One must act in harmony with spiritual ideals.
The reading also contains a powerful temple teaching: “Thy body, thy BODY is the temple of the living God.”
This means the human being is not spiritually empty or abandoned. Divine presence can dwell within consciousness itself. Silence, prayer, forgiveness, love, and spiritual living help awaken this realization.
One of the most encouraging sections comes near the end: “Be not afraid because ye have faltered anywhere.”
Cayce emphasizes that failure is not final. Spiritual growth includes mistakes, weakness, and learning. Forgiveness is presented as reciprocal law: “I forgive, even as ye forgive others.”
Then comes the penetrating question: “Then how forgiving art thou?”
According to the reading, the ability to forgive others reflects the openness of one’s own soul to divine forgiveness. Love is not merely emotion here — it is the governing law of spiritual life: “It is the law, it is the Lord, it is love.”
Overall, this reading teaches that human beings are spiritual souls with enormous creative potential. The real battle is not against external enemies but within consciousness itself: pride or humility, selfish will or divine alignment, cynicism or love, rebellion or cooperation with spiritual law. Cayce says greatness is possible for the soul that opens itself to the indwelling Divine Presence and aligns its will with love, forgiveness, and service.
READING 2794-3
An Atlantean! One who will make a real success or a miserable failure. And this combined with the Uranian influence makes the entity appear to many to be quite a cynic.
In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, these we choose from the records upon time and space, as recorded in the mental and physical activities of the entity through those periods of sojourn in the earth as well as those realms of consciousness outside the physical body, which are termed astrological but have little to do with the common term of the astrological aspects. Though oft they are correct, more oft ye find them in variance. For most astrologers are nearly thirty degrees off in their reckoning in the present.
We would choose the interpretations that may be an experience of helpfulness, if the entity will apply some of the mental suggestions that may be made for the correction of urges that have become a part of the entity's experience, that makes the entity, at times only, so dissatisfied with self and the accomplishments.
But what is thy yardstick of ideals? All that is material once existed in spirit, or the soul of the entity. Mind becomes the builder, the physical becomes the result. It depends, then, upon the materials - or the spirit with which one is prompted.
Thus it behooves the entity to analyze self, not merely as an entity but as to universal laws and universal consciousness. Begin with this, then, as a fact:
The Lord thy God is one. The self - as an individual entity, body, mind and soul - is one. The soul is a child of God, or a thought, a corpuscle in the heart of God. Yet the entity, thine own soul, has been given a will to use the attributes of soul, mind and body to thine own purposes. Thus as the individual entity applies self in relationship to those facts, the entity shows itself to be a true child or a wayward child, or a rebellious child, of the Creative Force or God.
The will then to do, to be one with that Creative Force and thus fulfil the purposes for which the entity entered this present sojourn, is an evidence of the conditions just stated, if one accepts the fact that God is and that the ego, the thought of self is His offspring. This is the accepting of the fact that ye always were, ye always will be; dependent upon the relationship or upon what ye do with thy will.
Will ye make thy will one with the Creative Force? Or will ye be negligent or unmindful of thy opportunities, or will ye rebel and have thine own way?
Then it would behoove the entity to first study what is the law of the Lord thy God. It is bound up in the admonition that thou shalt love the Lord with all thy mind, thy heart and thy soul, and thy neighbor as thyself. The laws pertaining to same are ever true that the manner in which ye treat thy fellow man ye are treating thy Maker. The seed ye sow ye shall also reap. The measure with which ye mete to others must come back to thee. These are immutable, unchangeable.
Then, what have ye done, what will ye do with these laws, these privileges, these opportunities?
The history or the story of man as viewed in the material plane is that he has gotten far from an ideal relationship with the Creative Forces. Yet a pattern has been given. True, that pattern - though the Son, as thyself - has passed through every temptation as thyself, but has shown Himself worthy, and has been accepted for His brethren as a sacrifice, as a judgment. Then He thy brother, thy Lord has offered to thee, "If ye love me and keep my commandments, I will come and abide with thee." Though ye be afar off, be not troubled, be not dismayed. Know that the Lord is in His Holy Temple. Let earth, and earthly things keep silent. Then ye may hear the Way of Truth. Thy body, thy BODY is the temple of the living God. Thus He can and does say to thee, "Behold I stand at the door and knock. Open!" Ye must open, ye must wish, ye must hope, ye must act in such a manner that He may enter.
This door once opened and realized in thy heart, in thy mind, in thy soul, no one may surpass thee in thy accomplishments. For they are many, as indicated not only in the astrological or solar sojourns but in thy material experiences in the earth.
Be not afraid because ye have faltered anywhere. For He has said, "I forgive, even as ye forgive others."
Then how forgiving art thou? Answer this, and ye will know just how ye have been forgiven. It is the law, it is the Lord, it is love.
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