Jesus as a Reincarnation of Adam

Sons of God - Sons of Man

Judaism, Christianity and Islam all accept the account of Adam and Eve as part of their religion. The Bible gave the distinct title of "Son of God" to only three personalities in the entire Bible: Adam, Melchizedek, and Jesus. So, it should not be surprising that these three personalities have a connection that goes well beyond coincidence. This connection is proof that these personalities were indeed the same soul appearing in different incarnations. This shows that the Bible is the story of the sojourn of the "Son of God" beginning with Paradise lost and ending with Paradise restored. The following information describes just the Adam-Jesus connection.

The Hebrew word for "Adam" is "man". The title "Son of Man" is a reference to Adam. The phrases "Son of Man" and "Son of Adam" are inter-changeable.

Jesus referred to himself using the phrase "Adam Kadmon" [Son of Man] to refer to the heavenly apocalyptic figure who is to come. Paul used the phrase "Adam Kadmon" as the archetypal man created in God's image who was the first and perfect representative of humanity who would return at the end of time and restore all things.

God's judgment upon Adam resulted in his reincarnation:

Talmudists interpret this verse this way: Because Adam sinned it was necessary for him to reincarnate to make good the evil committed in his first existence; so he comes as David, and later is to come as Messiah.

The Bible mentions David reincarnating for the people:

In the traditions of the Talmudists, the soul of Adam reincarnated in David, and that on account of the sin of David against Uriah it will have to come again in the expected Messiah.

Out of the three letters ADM (the name of the first man) the Talmudists always made the names Adam, David and Messiah.

As previously mentioned, the Bible gives the distinct title of "Son of God" to only three personalities in the entire Bible: Adam, Melchizedek, and Jesus.

  God declares the "sons of God" to be divine:

  Jesus declares himself the "Son of God":

  Adam ("ben elohim") is translated as "Son of God". This means Adam is first born to God.

  Adam "the first man" and Jesus "the second man."

  The Greek translation of the word "pattern" is "tupos" which is defined as: An impression made by a stamp, an exact image, an exact model, a copy, a type, an example. In context, the phrase "who is a pattern of the coming one" ("ejstin tuvpo tou' mevllonto hos estin tupos tou mellontos") refers to Adam as a copy of Christ.

  The Bible refers to Jesus as "the First of God's creation" (human-divine being) and "the Last of God's creation" (human-divine being).

  The Son of God's "first incarnation" was as Adam. The Son of God's "last incarnation" was as Jesus.

  Adam is the "Logos":

  Jesus is the "Logos":

  The first sacrifice was for physical needs:

  The last sacrifice was for spiritual needs:

  In the beginning, Adam with the Tree of Life:

  Adam's transgression banished people from the Tree of Life:

  Jesus' action restored people to the Tree of Life:

  Adam appears to people after death:

  The Messiah appears to people after death:

  Jesus appears to people after death:

The connection between Jesus and Adam is fundamental to Christian doctrine. Their connection is the foundation that holds together the entire Christian system of election, redemption, atonement, justification, regeneration and sanctification. The idea of Jesus "paying the penalty" for the transgressions of others makes no sense without his connection to Adam's mission of bringing in higher knowledge and its consequences. Without Adam as a previous incarnation as Jesus, the gospel message is absurd.

Adam brought divine knowledge of good and evil into the world which resulted in both positive and negative consequences. Jesus came to reverse the negative consequences brought on by Adam by paying his karmic debt. This becomes apparent when we read how the Bible draws parallels between Adam and Christ:

  The obedience of Jesus reversed the disobedience of Adam:

These verses describe the work of Adam being undone by the work of Jesus. This is an excellent example of how divine justice is meted out in the Bible and in Eastern religions. The only person who can satisfy divine justice by reversing the work of Adam would have to be Adam himself or an incarnation of Adam. Because Paul states that Jesus was the only one who can satisfy divine justice by paying the karmic debt of Adam indicates that it is possible that Adam was indeed an incarnation of Jesus.

  After Satan caused Adam and Eve to sin, God passed judgment upon them. In doing so, God reveals a remarkable prophecy:  Redemption will come through Eve - through the birth of a son:

This Bible verse is so remarkable that I want to break it down to analyze it because it not only supports the idea that Jesus was the reincarnation of Adam, but that the Virgin Mary was the reincarnation of Eve. In passing judgment, God stated that he will do the following:

  Let's examine each one separately:

(1)  Put enmity between Satan and Eve:

(2)  Put enmity between Satan's offspring (i.e., evil humans) and "Eve's offspring" (i.e., the Messiah):

(3)  The Messiah will crush Satan's head:

(4)  But Satan's offspring will strike the Messiah's heel:

  According to the Catholic Encyclopedia:

Genesis 3:13-15 is the first Messianic prophecy mentioned in the Bible and is a reference to an offspring of Eve who will be the Messiah and who will pay for the transgressions of Adam and Eve. What is interesting is how this verse refers to the Messiah as the "offspring of Eve." While it is true every human being can be considered to be an "offspring of Eve," this verse makes better sense when interpreted to mean an offspring born directly from Eve's own womb. This means Eve would need to reincarnate to give birth to the Messiah. The woman who gave birth to Jesus was, of course, the Virgin Mary. Traditionally, the Catholic Church has believed that Mary was not only a virgin when she bore Jesus, but that she herself was born without sin. Thus, a mystical tradition has existed concerning Mary which lasts even to this day.

But what makes this Eve-Virgin Mary connection important is how it best explains - in a logical manner - the cosmic reasons for Jesus' sacrifice and death and how it satisfied divine justice. The ancient concept of divine justice can be summed up beautifully in the Bible as an eye for an eye. This concept of divine justice was not limited to just the early Hebrews because it is a concept that is practically universal. The more ancient religions of the East referred to the concept of an eye for an eye as "karma." It demands transgressors pay for their own transgressions. No one else can pay for your own transgressions but you. Thus, because it was Adam and Eve who transgressed, it would have to be Adam and Eve themselves who paid. God's judgment upon them was that Eve would have to bear a son who would suffer as a consequence for their transgression. The only real and logical way this could be done would be through reincarnation. Eve would have to reincarnate to bear a son - the reincarnation of Adam. His tremendous suffering at the cross - and the suffering it would cause herself - would satisfy divine justice and pay for the transgression committed in Eden.

When we consider the orthodox view that Jesus and Mary were not the reincarnations of Adam and Eve, it makes much less sense when we talk about the so-called substitutionary sacrificial nature of Christ's death. The big question is this: How can divine justice be satisfied when an innocent person suffers and pays for the transgressions of someone else? Without reincarnation, it makes complete nonsense. It only makes sense if the innocent person was a reincarnation of the guilty person paying for their transgressions.

When Cayce was in one of his psychic trances, a question was put to him about Jesus as follows:

According to Cayce, the incarnations of the Christ-soul were as follows. Amilius the ruler of the lost civilization of Atlantis; Adam the first "son of God" and "son of man"; Enoch the patriarch who journeyed to heaven to receive mysteries; Hermes the sage and architect of the Great Pyramid; Melchizedek the mystical High Priest and and ancient King of Jerusalem; Joseph the son of Jacob who became the Prince of Egypt; Joshua the leader of the Israelites into the Promised Land; Asaph the music director and seer who served under David and Solomon; Jeshua the scribe of Moses who helped write the Torah; Zend the father of Zoroaster who founded the Zoroastrianism religion; and finally Jesus the Christ who overcame death and will return again to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth [See Cayce Reading 364-7]. According to Cayce, the entire Christian Bible is the story of the Christ-soul's long struggle to attain Christhood - the perfect unity of the human with the divine.

The belief in many incarnations of Jesus is not a new belief. The early Christian group known as the Ebionites taught that the Holy Spirit had first incarnated as Adam and later reincarnated as Jesus. Other Jewish Christian groups such as the Elkasaites and Nazarites also held this belief. The Samaritans believed that Adam had reincarnated as Seth, then Noah, Abraham, and even Moses. The Clementine Homilies, an early Christian document, also taught many incarnations of Jesus.

What is interesting about Cayce identifying Adam as a previous incarnation of Jesus, is how the Jewish Kabbalistic book called the Zohar describes Adam appearing to people after their death. Assuming the concept held by many early Christians of Adam as a previous incarnation of Jesus, the Zohar agrees with the multitude of near-death accounts where people are met by Jesus after their death.

Cayce affirmed how the Christ-soul, by possessing the body of Adam, ultimately became the first human being who attained the unity of the human with the divine in the person named Jesus. It should also be noted that sin did not begin with Adam according to Cayce, but had its origins in spiritual realms before even the creation of the Earth. We can therefore assume this was Adam's redemptive intent all along - to be savior of the world. Christ is thus seen as the last Adam, the "one man" who by his obedience undoes the results of the disobedience of the first (Romans 5:12-21). Jesus recapitulated the stages of Adam's fall, but in reverse order and quality. It is understandable how shocking this statement of Cayce's is to most fundamental Christians, how it makes Jesus appear to be the author of sin at the human level. However, Cayce in no way states that Jesus as the Christ was guilty of any sin of any kind. At that stage of his personal and cosmic development his obedience was flawless, his relationship with God perfect. In Cayce's words:

Cayce also affirmed Jesus would reincarnate again in the year 1998.

Cayce unlocked the mystery of Adam and Eve and why there are two separate and contradictory creation accounts described in Genesis 1:25-27 (the first creation account) and Genesis 2:18-22 (the second creation account.) The first creation account describes how the man and woman were created at the same time in God's image and after the creation of the animals. The second creation account describes how man was created first, then the animals, and then the woman from "Adam's rib."

Cayce associated the first creation account of Genesis 1:25-27 with the creation of Amilius - the first Christ-soul -and the first expression of Divine Mind (the logos) BEFORE his first incarnation into a physical body identified as Adam. Cayce revealed how the first creation account involved a first wave of souls leaving heaven and inhabiting Earth. This event is described in the Bible as the time when the "Sons of God" mated with the "daughters of men" (Genesis 6:1-4) producing the "Nephilim." This entanglement of the Sons of God with the flesh of ape-like bodies occurred through the accidental misuse of their free will. Cayce identified this entanglement of souls with flesh as the Biblical account of the "fall of the angels" as described symbolically in Revelation 12 and in the Book of Enoch - a book considered to be part of the Hebrew canon and which Jesus' brother, Jude, quoted from in the Book of Jude. Enoch, according to Cayce, was also an incarnation of the Christ-soul whose trip to heaven describes in detail the fall of the angels.

Cayce associated the second creation account with a second wave of souls incarnating to Earth as "sons of God" led by Amilius who voluntarily became entrapped in flesh as Adam in order to assist the first wave of entrapped souls. Cayce identified this second wave of souls with the creation account of Adam and Eve where Amilius altered the process of physical evolution in order to create more appropriate physical bodies for them rather than the ape-like forms they possessed and became entangled with. This process is described symbolically in Genesis 2:21 where the woman was formed from "Adam's rib." Adam was the first "son of man" and "Son of God" having the Christ-soul incarnated into physical form. Cayce also uses the name "Adam" to refer to the entire group of souls who Amilius aided into incarnating as the five races on five separate continents [Cayce Reading 900-227].

Cayce identified Amilius to be the ruler of the lost continent of Atlantis whose wife was named "Lilith" - another non-physical soul-entity. Cayce identified Lilith as being the first physical incarnation of Eve. Interestingly enough, there exists a ancient legend associated with a spirit-entity named Lilith apart from the Cayce readings.

According to Cayce, not only was Jesus and Adam the same soul in different incarnations, but the Virgin Mary and Eve were also the same soul in different incarnations. Cayce also revealed that Adam and Eve (and therefore Jesus and Mary) were "twin souls". When Cayce used this term in the readings, he was not referring to "soul mates" which is a different concept. Basically, a soul mate is a soul - or a group of souls - who have shared so many lifetimes that they resonate to the same pitch or vibration, so to speak. Soul mates understand each other like no one else can. This acquired understanding gives soul mates the ability to help each other in ways that would be difficult without the deep bonding that has occurred through the multitude of incarnations together.

Twin souls, on the other hand, are two souls who share a common purpose or higher ideal. They do not necessarily have to be married or have had previous marriage incarnations. While the "soul mate" relationship is largely built in the physical realm, the "twin soul" relationship evolves more from a commonality in the spirit realms - at the idea or ideal level. It is in this sense that the Adam/Eve and Jesus/Mary relationship is considered by Cayce to be a "twin soul" relationship.

The Cayce readings state that Mary, Joseph, and Jesus were affiliated with an Essene community based on Mount Carmel. It was a continuation of the "school of the prophets" begun by Elijah, Elisha, Samuel, and ultimately Melchizedek. Although the Essenes are not mentioned in the Bible, what Cayce's generation would have known about them came only from the writings of Josephus, Philo, and Pliny the Elder. Because the Dead Sea Scrolls were not discovered until 1947, Cayce could not have been influenced by them because he died in 1945. But much of what Cayce revealed about the Essenes was later verified by the Dead Sea Scrolls.

According to the Cayce material, the Essenes were a religious community consisting of both Jews and Gentiles, men and women, whose purpose was to prepare for the coming of the Messiah. The word "Essene," according to Cayce, means "expectancy." Josephus wrote that the Essenes were known for fortune-telling. Cayce described them spending their time recording experiences of "the supernatural or out of the ordinary experiences; whether in dreams, visions, voices, or what not" (1472-1). Cayce revealed the Essenes as students of astrology, numerology, and reincarnation.

The Dead Sea Scrolls describe the Essenes as an authoritarian, highly regimented community which controlled every aspect of its members' lives. The Manual of Discipline specifies that members were to turn over all money and property to the community after a year's probation. Qumran was located at about a four-hour walk from Jericho, most likely from a desire to be separated from the world. Their theology stressed a good versus evil dualism. Their writings describe a conflict between a "Teacher of Righteousness" and the "Wicked Priest" which some scholars believe refers to the struggle among early Christians between James and Paul. The Essenes anticipated a final war between the "sons of light" and the "sons of darkness." The scholars agree that there are many interesting similarities between Jesus and the Qumran community. Other similarities can be found in the life and ministry of John the Baptist.

  Cayce revealed that, due to her great virtue, Mary was chosen by the Essenes at around the age of thirteen for intensive spiritual training in preparation for the conception of the Messiah. Mary's election as mother of the Messiah occurred during a special ceremony in the temple at Mount Carmel, in which an angel lead her by the hand to the altar. Remarkably, this agrees with early Christian writings discovered in Egypt after Cayce's death:

  More about the Cayce revelations concerning the Essenes can be found at the Jesus Story website.