In the Edgar Cayce material, although
he gave many thousands of readings and
spoke of the body-soul connection in
different contexts,
some the best information -- the most
condensed information -- is found
in the Revelation readings. Of course
the revelation, he said, is not not so
much about what's going on
out there, in the world, it has more to do
with what's inside of us.
It's a revelation of self, he said. It's
the
description about this mystical process
of enlightenment,
of initiation, and so forth -- and he said
that the symbols in the book of
Revelation
can be interpreted literally
from an anatomical standpoint. In a
couple of readings he said take
Gray's Anatomy and the book of
Revelation and read them side by side
and Gray's Anatomy will interpret the
revelation.
A fascinating idea that all these
temples and so forth somehow relate to
centers in the body and life force
moving through those centers.
Of course what we find with some of  these
symbols and images, for example, the
candlesticks, the seven churches, the
seven stars and so forth ...
he said those represent the seven
spiritual centers ...
and specifically identified those as the seven
main endocrine glands. Notice that
there's these connection with the stars.
He said this relates more to the mind aspect,
so we've got spirit and mind already sort of
intertwined in this imagery of the
revelation.  What some people don't
realize though is that this whole
study of the Revelation originated with
the case of a young lady who came to him --
actually her parents bought her in 1929
to the hospital.
She was about 21 years old and she was
suffering from
mania and probably manic-depressive
disorder.
Mania, for those of you who don't
understand that, it's sort of the
opposite of depression. Sort of the high end of
the mood swings and she was she was 
suffering from some of those.
Edgar Cayce told the osteopathic physician
who was attending her to watch the
phases of the Moon -- that
her periods of wild hilarious reaction -- in
other words the mania, corresponded to
the phases of the Moon.
That is traditionally called lunacy --
"luna" (the moon) ... and he also told this
doctor to study the book of Revelation --
he said "be very good for the doctor here
to read the Revelation
and understand it" because the same
forces, the pineal gland and
these energies that move through the
system that's being described in this
mystical revelation of John,
is happening to this young woman with
this mental problem.
So that was in the sixth reading of
this series.  They came back in the seventh
reading -- and of
course this was a complete shock to them --
here they are getting a physical reading
and he is telling this osteopathic doctor to
read the book of Revelation if you
want to know how to treat this young  person.
He said that anyone, will they study
that
that given in the book and compare same
to the anatomical conditions of a
physical body will learn the spiritual
body,
the metal body -- not metaphysical either.
In other words,
flesh-and-blood 
anatomical centers here that this doctor
needs to understand --
not so much metaphysical -- very practical.
In the same reading he talked about how in
the Revelation "there is given that
illustration of how the mental body
is raised from the various degrees of
consciousness
and as is given here their activity are
through the correlated centers of an
anatomical body for they are
represented by the refuse as comes
from the fourth lumbar emptying into the
lower portion of the system." Now in the physical readings this is a typical
kinda stuff, and people read this and
their eyes glaze over ... and what's the
fourth lumbar and so forth and so on?
Well the fourth lumbar is in the lower
part of the spine
down here, about in this area.  And
essentially what he was saying was that
there was pressure there along the spine
and that was causing problems in the
pelvic area.
Now that's significant because I'm gonna
show you -- that what he needed for that doctor to
understand was
that this soul was having trouble
manifesting in this physical body
because of these pressures --
and the pressure was opening up these
glandular centers and allowing this life
and he says
it's raised from the various degrees of
consciousness -- this life force is raised into
the mental body
and she's experiencing this expanded
consciousness --
to the degree, out of balance, in a way
that we call mania.
So the fourth lumbar -- remember that -- 
we're gonna come back to that over and
over -- that's one of the key centers by which
the soul connects to the physical body.
He also went on to talk about the
sympathetic system.  He said "while the
consciousness as comes through
the system in sympathetic system is
raised to the inner
court or the holy mount, through the
pineal gland that coordinates with the
sympathetic forces."  So he is associating this
pineal gland --
the soul connection with the sympathetic
nervous system.
I'll relate that in just a moment -- because
that's another key aspect of
understanding the body-soul connection.
Of course they asked about the seals
and so forth, and he says, yes these do
represent the spiritual centers. They
asked
a number of questions and he ended up giving many, many readings just on
the glandular system, and the endocrine
glands, and how they function as
spiritual centers. This is all
opening up that whole series of
questions.  So in the revelation we have
all these images and so forth, these
symbols -- how can we translate that
to something that is useful to us in our
daily lives --
physically, metaphysically, however ...
