A Commentary on the Book of Revelation

Rating:
Summary: Interpretation of Book of Revelations that Makes Sense!
Review: I was at first shocked when I saw that a reviewer of this book rated it with only one star. Then I read the review and knew why. This book is not for the closed minded or for those who have a deeply embedded fear of looking at things another way than they have been taught all their lives.

However, for the sincere seeker and open-minded, this book is truly wonderful! Finally something that makes the Book of Revelations make sense -- and in a way that encourages and challenges the reader to take responsibility for his or her own understanding. It is all to easy to conceive of all darkness and evil being only from some "outside devil." It takes inner courage and sincerity to look at ourselves and see that we have the entire "war" of Dark and Light within our own selves!

The only mistake Edgar Cayce made here was by being ahead of his time. If you are only willing to interpret the Bible that way your Sunday School teacher taught you, I will concede that this book is not for you.

For myself, I found it enlightening and profound!

Rating:
Summary: Definitely a New Age philosophy
Review: The experienced reader of Edgar Cayce probably already knows that his readings on things other than health and cures for bodily ailments do not enjoy a good accuracy rate. Since Edgar Cayce considered himself a very religious man, though, this book was enough to pique my curiosity.

What the reader will find therein is almost a verbatim restatement of the self-centered New Age religious philosophy. According to Cayce, the four beasts and the four horses in the Book of Revelation both refer to four different centers of the body. The seven churches refer to seven different glands in the body, and so forth.

As a religious man, Cayce seems completely unconcerned that the Book of Revelation contains a curse for anyone who adds or detracts from its meaning. And Cayce himself leaves the reader with one glaring question: Since he claims to be connected to a universal consciousness, but never identifies who is answering the questions put to him while his is in a trance, his benefactor could be a different soul (if it is another soul) every time, and there's no guarantee that any of these souls are divine in any way. So the source of his information is seriously in doubt.

As with most psychics, Edgar Cayce leaves more questions behind than he ever answered.

As a Christian, I gave the book one star because it did not help me understand the Book of Revelations. Those who are into New Age philosophies -- or old Babylonian cults -- may rate the book somewhat higher.

Rating:
Summary: Couldn't even get the name right!
Review: You get an ideal of how poor the scholarship is on this one by the fact that the author, editor, and publisher don't even seem to know it's the book of Revelation, NOT Revelations! Sheeeeesh!

Rating:
Summary: Couldn't even get the name right!
Review: You get an ideal of how poor the scholarship is on this one by the fact that the author, editor, and publisher don't even seem to know it's the book of Revelation, NOT Revelations! Sheeeeesh!