These readings have been copied down from the book "Edgar Cayce's Story of Jesus" by Jeffrey Furst, ed. The "Q." and "A." mean respectively, "question" from the person or group receiving the reading and "answer" by Edgar Cayce.
1. Q. What present printed version of the Bible gives the nearest to the true meaning of both Old and New Testaments?
A. The nearest true version for the entity is that you apply of whatever version you read in your life. It isn't that you learn from anyone. You may only have the direction. The learning, the teaching is within self. For where hath He promised to meet you? Within that temple!
There have been many versions of that which was purposed to have been written, and has changed from all those versions. But remember that the whole gospel of Jesus Christ is, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy mind, thy heart, and thy body; and thy neighbour as thyself. Do this and thou shalt have eternal life." The rest of the book is trying to describe that. It is the same in any language, in any version. (2072-14)
Just a note from the author: "In one Reading an individual asked if he could gain perfection in this lifetime. (So as not to have to return to Earth again.) The sleeping Cayce flippantly replied, "Why should you expect to do in one lifetime what it took the Master thiry lives to attain?" (Furst, pg. 77)
"Indeed, according to the Readings much of the Bible can be interpreted either physically, mentally, or spiritually, and often on all levels simultaneously. This three-dimensional theme recurs again and again throughout the Readings as a symbolic trinity representative of the earth plane. (Furst, pg. 79)
See also Revelation concerning Israel and the 12 lost tribes of same.
2. Q. Who wrote the four Gospels?
A. These, we find, may best be determined by investigation of the records related to same... in the Vatican's own libraries.
MARK was first dictated, greatly by Peter. And this in those periods just before Peter was carried to Rome.
The next was MATTHEW, written by the one whose name it bears. As for the specific reasons--to those who were scattered into the upper portions of Palestine and through Laodicea. This was written something like thirty-three to thirty-four years later than MARK, and while this body that wrote same was in exile.
LUKE was written by Lucius ["Lucius is mentioned in the Bible as a teacher in Acts 13:1 and Romans 16:21" (Furst, pag 83)] rather than Luke, though (Lucius was) a companion with Luke during those activities of Paul--and written of course, unto those of the faith under the Roman influence. Not to the Roman peoples, but to the provinces ruled by the Romans. And it was from those sources that the very changes were made as to the differences in that given by MARK and MATTHEW.
JOHN was written by several; not by the John who was the Beloved, bu the John wh represented, or was the scribe for, John the Beloved--and, as much of same, was written much later. Portions of it were written at different times and combined some fifty years after the Crucifixion. (1598-2)
"According to the Readings The Master was present during each of these periods, with the possible exception of Noah and the Flood where no specific mention was made of Jesus' presence.
"Many theoligians regard the convenants as indications of failure by man. However, the Readings take a more positive attitude, indicating that Man's development is continually upward and as such the convenants are more akin to a changing set of rules for groups, or individuals, who are progressing upward in steps from lower to higher grades in their schooling. In this manner too, the seven covenants can be likened to the seven spiritual centers of the body, or the seven seals in the Book of Revelation." (Furst, pgs. 79-80)