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   C O N T I N U E D    F R O M    P R E V I O U S    P O S T   
      
      
      
   EPILOGUE   
       
       
   MANY YEARS AGO, when I had moved to Virginia Beach in August 1994, one    
   of my first activities was of course visiting the A.R.E. campus.   
       
   On one such occasion, I was sitting in the Meditation Room on the third   
   floor of the Library/Conference Building. Deep in silence peace bliss,    
   I was suddenly startled by a noisy tumult. Immediately looking to my   
   right, I saw that it was emitting from a group of people entering the   
   room [which I later learned had been the daily tour group]. Well, an   
   individual male was leading the tour group that day, and I recognized   
   him as one of the A.R.E. employees that I had seen pictures of over   
   the years when I had formerly been living at a distance. To my absolute   
   shock, at the end of the talk that he gave to the group he said to them,   
   "Just relax. You have nothing to worry about. We are all going to make    
   it." The Bible has warnings. The Readings say to pay attention to and    
   heed those warnings. Jesus said that only the few shall make it, and   
   only of those who have patience to the end. So how outrageous for this    
   male to make this statement to these people. Then he asked if anyone   
   had a question or comment, and I remained silent. However, after several   
   years of reading and seeing and hearing, up-close and first-hand, many    
   additional outrageous and erroneous things, I began in November 1998 to   
   deliver corrective communications to A.R.E. employees, including this   
   one. Regarding the latter, my main and first communication to him was   
   that his espousal of the doctrine of Universal Salvation - which by now   
   he has also put forth in numerous of his books and elsewhere - is against    
   both The Readings and The Bible. His response was to send me several   
   Reading quotes which, if taken out of context and/or not rendered in   
   light of all of the rest of the Readings, might be construed to seem to   
   suggest that the doctrine of Universal Salvation is a true one. So what   
   can one do if they are dealing with someone who is satisfied with not   
   applying the two cardinal rules of reading comprehension - 1. Context;   
   and 2. Comparison? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Worse than this, later   
   on I found out when reading his brief bio that he believed in this doctrine    
   before he ever read any of the Readings and that then when he first heard    
   about the Readings the first thing that he was most anxious to find out was    
   if the Readings espouse this doctrine and then when he began to read the    
   Readings - poof! - lo and behold! - they did. Ha! Ha! He has made - and    
   until and unless he changes, is still making - the same mistake as those    
   who treat the Bible as being an animal carcass to be picked at.    
   THE BIBLE IS NOT AN ANIMAL CARCASS! THE READINGS ARE NOT AN    
   ANIMAL CARCASS! THESE BODIES OF MATERIAL ARE BOTH WHOLE    
   CONSISTENT CONGRUENT CONTIGUOUS WORKS OF GOD, AND CANNOT    
   BE RIGHTLY INTERPRETED UNLESS THEY ARE ALLOWED TO INTERPRET    
   THEMSELVES, AND THAT MEANS TO APPLY THE TWO CARDINAL RULES OF    
   READING COMPREHENSION, WHICH IS WHAT I HAVE DONE, AND WHICH    
   IS WHY ALL OF MY WRITINGS HAVE SUCH A HIGH ACCURACY RATE AND    
   ACTUALLY REPRESENT AND HONOR BOTH THE READINGS AND THE BIBLE!    
   AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! WHEN OH WHEN WILL I BE RIGHTLY RECOGNIZED    
   AND PROPERLY REMUNERATED BY THE GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO SHOULD    
   DO SO - ESPECIALLY THE ONE PERSON OF THEM WHO HAS MADE THE    
   GREATEST NUMBER OF PUBLIC AND/OR PUBLISHED ERRORS AND HAS    
   RECEIVED THE GREATEST NUMBER OF CORRECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS    
   FROM ME - THE MAN WHO I HAVE BEEN DESCRIBING HERE? THEY, AND HE,    
   BETTER DO SO BEFORE GOD'S FIRST JUDGMENT - OR AS THE READINGS    
   ARE WONT TO PUT IT, RECKONING, AS IN THE OLD EXPRESSION "THE DAY    
   OF RECKONING" - OR ELSE THEY WILL ALL BE IN JEOPARDY OF FALLING    
   ON THE NOT-SO-PLEASANT SIDE OF THE FENCE. ANYONE WHO IS IN    
   ERROR, AND WORSE OF ALL IS PREACHING THOSE ERRORS TO THE   
   PUBLIC, CANNOT GET AWAY WITH NOT APPRECIATING THE ONE WHO HAS    
   TAKEN THE TIME AND EFFORT AND EXPENSE TO SET THINGS RIGHT IN    
   ORDER TO SAVE SOULS! AND PREACHING THE WORD OF TRUTH AS I HAVE    
   DONE AND AM STILL DOING IS A WORK WORTHY OF DOUBLE PAY THAN    
   ANY OTHER WORK [1 TIMOTHY 5:17]. O LORD GOD, MAY YOUR WILL BE    
   DONE, AND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. AMEN.      
       
       
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   August 02 2015   
      
   J.R. replied:   
      
   Debra has provided some amazing research into the readings and their    
   Biblical analogs.  We can contrast all this easily with New Age pontification    
   including "The Course in Miracles", the authoritarian, solipsistic, amoral    
   ramblings of a disembodied spirit.  The "Course" persists in pontificating   
   that    
   the world is a dream and that sin and illness are illusionary, not requiring    
   judgement.  This implies that all sorts of behavior is acceptable, since we   
   are    
   perfect.  The Cayce readings are not as they are often portrayed by the    
   members of the ARE organization.  The "Seth Material" and "The Course" are    
   more correctly the intellectual feeding ground of the New Age than the    
   heavily Christian Cayce.   
   In my view, the ARE is often a nesting area for New Agers because the    
   organization possesses infrastructure, a membership base and is open to    
   practically any non-Christian viewpoint.  Frankly, I'm not a fan of main line    
   Christianity and I'm merely commenting on the lack of intellectual honesty I    
   often see.  A house divided can not stand saith Lincoln.   
      
      
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   August 02 2015   
      
   Debra replied:   
      
   Hello J.R.:   
       
   THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR APPRECIATION AND COMPLIMENT.   
       
   Yes. The A.R.E. is to offer to the public only the Readings, and other   
   offerings which are SIMILAR TO and COORDINATE WITH the Readings:    
      
   Edgar Cayce Reading 254-37   
   The purpose, then, of the Association: The institution is to be builded    
   around that of a place where the records of that accomplished through   
   these sources are kept, and others of similar nature, or of the various   
   philosophies that may be found that will coordinate - and combined in   
   that oneness of purpose to bring the better understanding of the purpose   
   IN life, and thus enable man to realize the closer association with the   
   divine.   
       
   ALL CHANNELED MATERIALS FALL SHORT OF THIS PURPOSE AND ITS GOAL -   
   whether "A Course In Miracles" or "Conversations With God" or "The Urantia   
   Book" or "Messages From Abraham", et cetera - which all consist of anti-Bible   
   anti-Reading lies and misinformation and fruitless verbiage - and which the   
      
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