Edgar Cayce lived about the same time as Elder Darter. In his everyday life, Mr. Cayce was a devout born-again Christian, but when asleep, he seemed to possess the ability to channel for unseen entities and to answer questions posed to him. He is most famous for his medical remedies and predictions about the future. For these reasons he is often called “the sleeping prophet”. Here are a few readings given by him as channeled by John, himself, and by another angel named Halaliel who foretells the impending coming of John:
“I, John, would speak with thee concerning the Lord, the Master, as He walked among men. As given, if all that He did and said were written, I suppose the world would not contain all that may be said.
“As He, the Christ, is in His glory that was ordained of the Father, He may be approached by those who in sincerity and earnestness seek to know Him—and to be guided by him. As He has given: By faith, all things are made possible through belief in His name.
“Believest thou? Then let thine activities bespeak that (which) you as souls, as beings, would make manifest of His love, in the way He will show thee day by day.
“As He came into the world—as man knows the world—He became as man; yet in the spirit world He seeks to make manifest that sought by those who do His bidding. For, as He gave, ‘If ye love me, keep my commandments. These are not new, and are not grievous: that ye love one another—even as the Father loveth me.'
“The Christ-Consciousness is a universal consciousness of the Father Spirit. The Jesus-consciousness is that (which) man builds in his body as worship. (The body is the Temple of God). In the Christ-Consciousness then, there is the oneness of self, self's desires, self's abilities, made in at-one-ment with The Forces that may bring to pass that which is sought by an individuality or soul. Hence, at that particular period, Self was in accord. Hence the physical consciousness had the desire to make it an experience of the whole consciousness of self.
“Seek this more often. He will speak with thee, for His promises are true—every one of them.” (5749-4) (Quoted from Edgar Cayce's Story of Jesus, pp 338-339).
In the following Reading another of the angels, Halaliel, is heard from—along with his pronouncement of John the Beloved's intended return into the earth.
“Q. We seek at this time such information as will be of value and interest to those present, regarding the spiritual, mental and physical changes which are coming to the earth.
“A. Yes; as each of you gathered here have your own individual development, yet as each seeks to be a channel of blessings to the fellow man, each attunes self to the throne of universal information. And there may be accorded you that which may he beneficial, not only in thine own experience, but that which will prove helpful, hopeful, in the experience of others.
“Many may question you as to the sources, as to the channel through which such information that may be given you as this time has come. Know it has reached that which is as high for each of you in your respective development as you have merited, and do merit; and has accorded and does accord to the realm of light that which may be aidful and helpful in thine own experience. And in the experience of those that ye in your service to thy fellow man may give unto others. Hence, in giving the interpretation, many are present; many of those whose names alone would bring to others awe—discredit, yes—even a wonderment. For, not only then must the information be instructive but enlightening; yet it must also be so given that it may he a practical thing in the experience of thine own self and in the experience of life of thine fellow man. Not only must it be informative in nature, but it must also be that which is constructive; though that which is informative and that which may be enlightening and constructive must at times overlap one another.
“First, then: There is soon to come into the world a body; one of our own number here that to many has been a representative of a sect of a thought, of a philosophy, of a group, yet one beloved of all men inall places where the universality of God in the earth has been proclaimed where true oneness of the Father as God is known and is consciously magnified in the activities of individuals that proclaim the acceptable day of the Lord. Hence, that one, John the Beloved, in the earth—his name shall be John, and also at the place where he met face to face. He comes as a messenger, a forerunner, but as a messenger; for these are periods when mental, material, are to be so altered in the affairs of men as to be even bringing turmoil to those that have not seen that the Spirit is moving in His ways to bring the knowledge of the Father in the hearts and lives of men.
“When, where, is to be this one? In the hearts and minds of those that have set themselves in a position that they become a channel through which, spiritual, mental and material things become one in purpose and desires of that physical body!
“As to the material an omen, as a sign to those that this is shortly to come to pass—as has been given of old, the sun will be darkened and the earth shall be broken up in divers places—and then shall be proclaimed—through the spiritual interception in the hearts and minds and souls of those that have sought His way—that His star has appeared, and will point the way for those that enter into the holy of holies in themselves. For, God the Father, God the Teacher, God the Director, in the minds and hearts of men, must ever be in those that come to know Him as first and foremost in the seeking of those souls; for He is first the God to the individual and as He is exemplified, as He is manifested in the heart and in the acts of the body, of the individual, He becomes manifested before men….
“As to the changes physical again: The earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea. The upper portion of Europe will he changed as in - the twinkling of an eye. Land will appear off the east coast of America. There will be the upheavals in the Arctic and in the Antarctic that will make for the eruption of volcanoes in the Torrid areas, and there will be the shifting then of the poles —so that where there has been those of a frigid or the semi-tropical will become the more tropical, and moss and fern will grow. And these will begin in those periods in ‘58 to ‘98, when these will be proclaimed as the periods when His light will be seen again in the clouds. As to times, as to seasons, as to places, alone is it given to those who have named the name—and who bear the mark of those of His calling and His election in their bodies. To them it shall be given.
“As to those things that deal with the mental of the earth, these shall call upon the mountains to cover many. As ye have seen those in lowly places raised to those of power in the political, in the machinery of nations' activities, so shall ye see those in high places reduced and calling on the waters of darkness to cover them. And those that in the inmost recesses of their selves awaken to the spiritual truths that are to be given, and those places that have acted in the capacity of teachers among men, the rottenness of those that have ministered in places will be brought to light, and turmoils and strifes shall enter. And, as there is the wavering of those that would enter as emissaries, as teachers, from the Throne of Life, the Throne of Light, the Throne of Immortality, and wage war in the air with those of darkness, then know ye the Armageddon is at hand. For with the great numbers of the gathering of the hosts of those that have hindered and would make for man and his weaknesses stumbling blocks, they shall wage war with the Spirits of Light that come into the earth for this awakening; that have been and are being called by those of the sons of men into the service of the Living God. For He, as ye have been told, is not the God of the dead, not the God of those that have forsaken Him, but those that love His coming, that love His associations among men—the God of the living, the God of LIFE! For, He IS Life.
“Who shall proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord in Him that has been born in the earth in America? Those from that land where there has been born in the earth in America? Those from that land where there has been the regeneration, not only of the body but the mind and the spirit of men, they shall come and declare that John Peniel is giving to the world the new order of things. Note that these that have been proclaimed have been refused, but that they are made plain in the minds of men, that they may know the truth and the truth, the life, the light, will make them free.
“I have declared this, that has been delivered unto me to give unto you, ye that sit here and that hear and that see a light breaking in the east, and have heard, have seen thine weaknesses and thine fault-findings, and know that He will make thy paths straight if ye will but live that ye know that He will make thy paths straight if ye will but live that ye know this day—then may the next step, the next word, be declared unto thee. For ye in your weakness have known the way, through that as ye have made manifest of the spirit of truth and light that has been proclaimed into this earth, that has been committed unto the keeping of Him that made of Himself no estate, but who brought into being all that ye see manifest in the earth, and has declared this message unto thee: ‘Love the Lord thy God with all thine heart', and the second is like unto it, ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself'. Who is thine neighbor? Him that ye may aid in whatsoever way that he, thy neighbor, thy brother, has been troubled. Help him to stand on his own feet. For such may only know the acceptable way. The weakling, the unsteady, must enter into the crucible and become as naught, even as He, that they may know the way. I Halaliel, have spoken!
“Q. Is America fulfilling her destiny?
“A. Rather should the question be sought, my children, are individuals fulfilling those channels to which they have been brought through their own application of the knowledge within themselves to fulfil their position? For each and every one, each and every nation, is led—even as in heaven. For that ye see in earth is a pattern of that in the mind, as ye well know, and is as a shadow of spiritual truth, life and light. Is America as a whole? This is as has been given. If there is not the acceptance in America of the closer brotherhood of man, the love of the neighbor as self, civilization must wend its way westward—and again must Mongolia, a hated people, be raised.
“Q. Is there any further counsel or advice for us gathered here, which will enable us to understand better our responsibility?
“A. All gathered here in the name of God who is the Father, to those that seek to know His ways—and who is as something outside the veil of their understanding unless sought, even as the counsel of the Father, of that God-Mother in each soul that seeks to know the biddings; not as one that would reap vengeance but rather as the loving, merciful Father. For, as ye show mercy, so may the Father show mercy to thee. As ye show the wisdom, as ye show the love of thy fellow man, so may the love be shown, so may the wisdom, so may the guiding steps day by day be shown thee. Be ye joyous in the Lord, knowing that He is ever present with those that seek His face. He is not in heaven, but makes heaven in thine own heart, if ye accept Him. He, God, the Father, is present and manifest in that ye mete to your fellow man in thine own experience.
“Would ye know the Father, be the father to thy brother. Would ye know the love of the Father, show thy love to thy faltering, to thy erring brother – but to those that seek, not those that condemn.
“We are through.” (3976-15) (Quoted from Edgar Cayce's Story of Jesus, pp 346-351).
Here is another message from John.
“How beautiful the face of those whom the Lord, the Christ, smiles upon! He would walk and talk with thee, my children, if ye will but put away from thy mind those things and conditions that ye feel are in the way. For, they are as naught compared to the great love that He has bestowed upon His brethren.
“How beautiful the face, how lovely the clouds! In His presence abide; ye, every one of you are before Him just now. His face is turned toward thee, His heart and hand is offered you. Will ye not accept Him just now? How glorious the knowledge of His presence should awaken in the hearts of you, for He is lonely without thee; for He has called each of you by name. Will ye fail Him now?
“Let His love, as He gave, be the impelling influence in thine associations one with another; yea, though ye crucify Him in thine activities and words one to another, He was crucified that ye might know Him the better. For thus He became the Lord, thy Brother, thy Savior, thy Intermediator with God, the Father.
“Count it joy, then, as He, that ye are called by Him in a service—in a loving service—to thy fellow man; for through this lowly, weak, unworthy channel (Cayce) has He chosen to speak, for the purposes of this soul (Cayce) have been to do good unto his brethren. Love ye him. Comfort and care, for thy Master has loved him, thy brother, thy neighbor, thy friend! Love God, eschew evil. Speak oft with thy Brother, thy Savior, thy Christ, for He is oft in the midst of thee. He would bless this house, will ye but keep Him near at hand. Turn Him not away with harsh words, unkind thoughts, or belittling acts one to another! If ye are faithful to confess thy faults one to another, He is faithful to forgive; for He alone can purge thy soul and make it light in His heart, His bosom, His blood. For it was shed for thee, that thou mightest know the love of God, of Christ, in thine day. For the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and upon him that speaks with thee. Do good that He may abide with thee, that the clouds of doubt and fear may be purged every whit from thine experience, from thine consciousness; and know that He is ALIVE in thee, wilt thou but love one another even as He has loved you.
“See the glory of His light shine upon him that speaks to thee. Know the Lord is nigh unto thee. Fare ye in the way that brings peace, harmony; for if ye will have peace, make peace with another, make peace with thy self, thy Lord, thy Christ, thine Brother.
“Love one another!” (254-76) (Quoted from Edgar Cayce's Story of Jesus, pp 358-359).