By Denny J.
Highben
“There is
seen, there is being laid out plans for a work that as given is to change the
thought of mankind in general in many directions.” Edgar Cayce reading 254-37
The Council
reinforced many concepts through their years of speaking to physical man
through the deep trance communications of William Allen LePar. From the frequent
reminder that we are the beloved children of the Divine Creator to the fact
that we are much too focused on the material world -- which is an illusion -- this
union of 12 evolved souls constantly sought to guide mankind to higher levels of
awareness.
One of those
concepts: There are no accidents, no coincidences. We can never fully understand
how that can be, confined to the limits of our physical consciousness. I guess
this is an example of taking something on faith.
An incident
that happened to me recently reignited my imagination: Was this a
coincidence? Couldn’t be, because I trust The Council… As Bill once noted, more
than a million words of dialogue with them and no contradictions… but why now,
and what am I supposed to do about it? With it?
I decided
the best thing to do with it is share. If you believe there ARE coincidences in
life, then this may be just an amusing story. If you believe there are no
coincidences, then you may sense a significance in this event.
To
appreciate this, some background is in order. I am loath to throw any papers
away, for they may hold a thought, a note or a quote that may someday be
exactly what I seek. Of course, there are so many containers of disorganized
paper that I rarely – RARELY – find just the right piece at just the right
time. Right now, I can only think of two incidents where my proclivity of
pack-ratting has paid off. A couple
years ago, I “accidentally’ found that I had an old notebook of a SOL
Associate. In there was confirmation that The Council used a specific phrase to
honor LePar’s ability to maintain a Christ-like attitude at his place of
employment, despite the harassment he endured. (The specifics are too long for
this space, but the story is explained in chapter 26 of “William Allen LePar,
The Spiritual Rosetta Stone for the End of Our Age.”)
The second
incident was this summer.
In yet another
effort to conquer my lifelong weakness as a packrat, I had attacked a container
of papers and files. I dumped the contents of one large envelope onto my desk,
and somehow got distracted (again) and never really looked at what those
contents were. Turned out it was an envelope of very old materials from the
Association for Research and Enlightenment, the non-profit founded by Edgar
Cayce. Not sure where it came from or how long it has been in my possession. I
was never a member, and until I encountered LePar and The Council I was perfectly
content to ignore and occasionally ridicule all things spiritual. My life was
fine believing Darwin was right, science is right, and when you die, it is all
over. The fat lady has sung.
Thinking
back, I have to conclude that these photocopies had been given to me by a SOL
Associate who had been a member of ARE, so I could see the similarities between
LePar’s situation and that of Cayce.
A few days
later, with this pile still in front of me as I worked, I noticed one statement
from the Cayce readings that astounded me. It was at the bottom of a flyer
copyrighted in 1971: “There is seen, there is being laid out plans for a
work that as given is to change the thought of mankind in general in many
directions.”
It seemed
like a double whammy. The quote came from Cayce’s source in May 1944, when
LePar was a little boy growing up in Canton, Ohio. The copyright date, 1971,
was a year before the deep trance phenomenon first overwhelmed LePar. I quickly
contacted SOL and requested any comment from LePar’s source, The Council, on
Egar Cayce. On September 19, 1987, The Council opened the 149th
trance this way:
The Council:
“A number of you have found an interest in the Cayce experience. And some of
you have wondered if there was a connecting link between that particular experience
in time and this one. Yes, there is.
“At that time, the world on a broader scale
had to be made aware of influences beyond the physical form or the earthly manifestation. To
do so, it had to deal with individuals as such to bring a greater validity to
the fact that your physical world exists within the real world or the real
creation which is the spiritual plane. …
“The Cayce
experience fulfilled its time in allowing the world on a greater scale than has
been understood or has been touched before that when the soul passes from the
physical plane to the spiritual plane, it is still alive and well, that some
entities, some souls, some creations of God, are still interested in the physical
plane to the degree that they are willing to communicate with that plane, with
those individuals who are still entrapped in the physical world.
“What is the
purpose of these experiences then? The purpose is to take the Cayce experience
one step higher. The world as a whole knows that there is an existence
after the experience called death. Now the time has come to bring a general element
to the information or the guidance from the heavenly realms. Instead of dealing
with individuals, this experience deals with general conditions, and because of
this, because of the nature of the information and its purpose, its intention,
all questions answered are answered in a general form so that they are useful
not only to you who may ask it but to all of those who are here and all of
those who will not be fortunate enough ever to experience something such as
this.”
The “general
element” which The Council has added to mankind’s awareness of spiritual reality
is profound in its breadth, depth and value. Looking at the world as it is, The
Council’s intervention is certainly no accident, no coincidence.
