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A Short History The
Revelation Study Group On
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years later, the Glad Helpers Group began taking readings on The Revelation
first requested by the Norfolk Study Group #1. In
all, Edgar Cayce gave twenty-three readings on The Revelation over a ten-year
period 1933-1943 in the #281 series (281-16-63). The first four years were on The
Revelation text and the next six years were on the glands. Following
the prime directive of the organization to research the work, members of the
first New York In
the evolutionary process, Shane Miller produced a series of slides based on
the “Commentary,” Edward Irion began a study group at the Beach and wrote a
book and I began a study group at the center of the first affiliate on 16th
Street that studied the “Commentary.”
After moving into the center when the
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A Personal Journey |
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Index Experiencing The
Revelation
(Raising Kundalini) |
My curiosity about the mystery of man's
relationship to the Creative Force was awakened when I was in my thirteenth
year. I spent that summer reading the
Bible. Most of the stories were familiar to me from Sunday school, and I
accepted the visions and miracles without question. However, when I reached
the Book of The Revelation I sought an explanation. The answer I received
most often was that it prophesied the end of the world. My Episcopalian father said it had
something to do with the antediluvian world and Catholics burning up in
fire. None of these answers satisfied
me, so solving the mystery of The Revelation became a personal
challenge. However, I could not fit
the angels, beasts, horsemen, candlesticks and other symbols into a logical
pattern. When fall came, I set The Revelation aside and did not seriously
pick it up for study until many years later. Yet, instinctively I felt that
someday I would learn the secret of The Revelation. Elyse Curtis, Ph.D. |
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1956, when the mystical planet One of the books I had read in 1956 was, There Is A River, the biography of
Edgar Cayce, a psychic who reportedly was able to reach the Akasha, the level
of consciousness where all experiences are recorded. I found the book fascinating and felt some
credibility about the information that came through this man. In the spring
of 1964 I attended a lecture presented by The Association for Research and
Enlightenment, the organization that preserved and studied the Edgar Cayce
readings. After the lecture, I noticed a loose-leaf folder on the book table
labeled, A Commentary on the Book of
The Revelation. This excited me
and I thumbed through the book thinking, “Somebody has solved the riddle of
The Revelation.” My quick glance
through the folder told me that The Revelation related to the spiritual
centers located in man's endocrine system.
I was familiar with the spiritual centers, or chakras, as they are
called in Sanskrit, having read such books as The Mysterious Kundalini and The
Serpent Power. Did The Revelation
deal with man's spiritual awakening instead of his doom? I was anxious to read the “Commentary,” but
could not afford to purchase it that evening.
However, my mind was on fire again with The Revelation, and I began
re-reading it in the Bible when I got home.
In my mind's eye I visualized John as a storyteller and felt strongly
that I should dramatize his vision.
Later I purchased the A
Commentary on The Revelation and began comparing it with the other books
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(Raising Kundalini) After that conference, I became a member of the A.
R. E. The first meeting I attended at
the
on the subject. The feeling that this message would have a great impact
through the theatre remained with me, but I could not see a way of
dramatizing it so that it would make sense to an audience. |
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Frank Fitzgeral The When I first joined the prayer group I had written
twelve songs of which I was very proud.
One day, some time before I moved into the apartment, I heard a song
on the radio and began singing along with it. Then I realized it was one of
the songs I had written with minor differences. I found out that the song had
been written by a well-known folk singer/songwriter. How could this be? I had only shown the
song to The first night spent in the new apartment, I hung
the guitar on the wall in what had been the On It was six in the morning when my guests left. I
slept until 10 p. m. Friday night. I
woke up a bit disoriented about time and feeling awful about the tale I had
told. Around I rushed to my typewriter and began typing the
script. Whenever I came to a passage
that should be sung, I heard the music and sand it into my tape
recorder. A burst of blue light
appeared and rested on the desk. I was not afraid. I simply welcomed the
light and continued typing. Chapter eleven ended with the song, “You Have
Reigned.” After I taped this song, the
flow ceased. I was baffled by this
complete cutoff. I played the song
back to see if it would stimulate the flow. It was a moving and beautiful
song that brought tears to my eyes and I imagined many voices singing
it. Undoubtedly, it was a grand
finale. I realized then that “The Revelation” was in two parts and that Part
I was my show. I had three acts and a
finale and there was no place else to go. It was now Sunday night. Except for
a few naps, I had gotten very little sleep while writing the show. Suddenly I
felt weary. Monday I wrote lead sheets
of the music and Tuesday I edited the script. Then the blue light
disappeared. I just couldn't believe I had written a complete musical on such
a complicated subject in three days. Could it be that I had previously
written the show on an unconscious level and that it was my higher self who
told Jeff I was practically finished? It had been necessary for me to experience the
process of spiritualization before I was able to write about it. I felt that the vibrations left in the
apartment from seven years of work on “The Revelation” made it so easy for me
to understand it. The blue light, however, remained a mystery, but I felt it
was some kind of cosmic guidance. My musical of The Revelation premiered on September 17, 1971 for a limited run of four
weekends. It was presented as an exploration in consciousness that took the
audience on a mystical journey. The
performers were all highly talented and exciting, and they exemplified their
parts brilliantly. The musical
director did an outstanding arrangement of the overture. As soon as it began there was a feeling
that an unusual experience was to follow. The finale was a climax of joy and
tears for the audience. As the cast
disappeared in the rear of the house leaving a lone halo spot on the back
wall, there was no way of discerning if the vision had taken place on the
stage or in the mind. Many people who
attended the production remarked that it had been a personal spiritual
experience, and that they had gained a better understanding of “The
Revelation.” The purpose of the show had been realized on a small scale to a
select audience. As I could not write
it until my consciousness had been prepared, I knew it would be performed on
a large scale only when the mass consciousness was ready. Since the 1970's, a great change in consciousness
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The Ballad of the Revelation was added to the
original script of the musical to enhance the visual symbols for the
audience. The Ballad also functions
as a rap in the “The Seven Stars,” a version of the musical geared to the
masses. Eventually, the Ballad, which
interprets all twenty-two chapters of John's vision in verse, was published
as a separate booklet Ballad of the
Revelation. It is an effort to share my understanding of The
Revelation, based on what I have read, sensed in consciousness and
experienced. At the end of each
chapter of the Ballad is a |
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The Commentary on the Twenty-four Psychic Readings
on The Revelation given by Edgar Cayce had been compiled over a period of
seven years at the In April of 1970, a blue light appeared to me in the
apartment; and over a three-day period, I "received" a musical of
the first 11 chapters of The Revelation with 35 songs, which I sung into a
tape recorder and later notated. This
musical, which was subsequently produced Off Off Broadway at the Zeta Theatre
and opened the The next year on the same date, the light appeared
again. This time, I "received" the form for a ministry based on the
Revelation. I wrote down what I was
told and drew, as best I could (I'm not an artist), the arrangement of the
altar, how the seven candlesticks would be placed, etc. This was a major step. I also put it away awaiting further
instructions. In the meantime, I moved down to In 1991, twenty years after receiving the form for
the ministry, I was told to print the missal for the Mass of the Revelation
in a book. I was also told to print up
a collection of my songs for service in a songbook. I did this and put it away awaiting
further instructions, then went on with my life and forgot about it. The next step in this journey toward my ministry of
the Revelation came in 1999. An
acquaintance, knowing that I have a doctorate in religion, asked if I would
perform her friend's marriage. I
explained to her that I was a professor of religion, not a minister. This was my epiphany. I understood that it was the next message
on the ministry. It was the pivotal
moment that led me to All Faiths International Seminary, where I enrolled,
studied under Rabbi Joseph Gelberman, and became an ordained minister. This was the culmination of an almost
thirty-year journey toward my ministry of the Revelation. The ministry of the Revelation is geared toward
raising consciousness to higher levels and fills a void where persons who
feel alienated from their churches because of their belief in reincarnation
and the body, mind, spirit connection could worship without feeling like
outsiders while still practicing the rituals of their faith. While Jesus, the Christ, is the center of
the ministry, it became the seed of evolved Christianity, because it began
with the last book, His last message, His book of instruction that He had
promised John. In my journey toward a ministry of the Revelation, I
followed the will of God by doing what I heard even though it made no sense
to me at the time. I had faith that I
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As a part of my internship when completing my
doctorate in Religion and Transpersonal Arts, I transformed Broadway Tomorrow
Musical Theatre, a not-profit arts organization that I founded in 1983, into
Science of Light, a Transpersonal Arts and Education organization that
encompassed Theatre of the Spirit, Ethereal Music, Akashic Records, and
Astral Projections Press for the production of sacred theatre, music,
recordings, and publications in various venues. The name, “Science of Light” came from an Edgar
Cayce reading given July, 1944 for a 45-year-old Social Science teacher. He was told to take the simple story of
Jesus of Nazareth as his study knowing that Jesus was the same soul-entity
who had been Jeshua, the scribe who had translated the rest of the books of
the Bible when reestablishing the worship of God on the return of the Jews
from captivity; that he had been Joshua, the mouthpiece of Moses, through
whom Moses received the commandments; that he had been the entity
Melchizedek, who manifested to Abraham from the desire of Father-God to
prepare an escape for man; that he had
been Enoch, who warned of the same, that he had been Adam and the Spirit of
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In his study, the teacher was to understand why the
spirit of life, the spirit of light, of hope, and of desire to know the
truth, must be greater than scientific proof, and yet it [the study of the
spirit of light, etc.] is “the science of light, of truth, of love, of hope,
of desire, of God.” [5023-2] However, in the same Cayce Reading on the science of
light, the teacher was further told that, "Science and religion are one when their
purposes are one." [5023-2] There is also a Cayce reading that speaks of the new
religions coming into the earth: “there at present enters
into the affairs of the world that of expectancy of the mysterious, with the message from the sources through
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of Science of light I had followed the directions to attend seminary and
become ordained, but now I needed to establish a ministry of the
Revelation. Because the name “Science
of Light” answered to my consciousness so well, in addition to my Arts
Ministry, I created a religious ministry that also included that name: One of the purposes in the Certificate of
Incorporation was to establish a seminary and give religious instructions in
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I had thought seriously about creating a seminary
and, as is usual with me, the outline of the course of study along with the
syllabus, came full-blown into my consciousness. However, I did not take any action on it
until persuaded by one of the volunteers in the Two other seminarians were ordained the next
year. Study is now available online
while we are establishing a permanent home and retreat. Seminary |
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Independent of my study of The Revelation, while I
still worked as a singer, I spent my breaks trying to get a grasp on Genesis,
line by line. The results was a book, Let there be
Light: Creation and Evolution
in the Bible, that not only gave me some biblical answers to that nagging
question, but my studies led me to that comparison with The Revelation. The book not only became the main text book
on Origins and Destiny in the Seminary, but is used in my Revelation Study
Groups.
As the music from the Musical of The Revelation
became more familiar, I compiled “The
Revelation Song Book” - Songs from the musical of the Revelation, from
which we sing during our Revelation study, which includes Part I of the
"Ballad of the Revelation." Elyse Donathan Curtis, Ph. D., 2006 |
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*Excerpted from my article that appeared in Venture Inward Magazine Nov/Dec. 1996 All
books mentioned are available in the ©Copyright 2006, 2007, 2011 Elyse Curtis, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved |
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