Is Jesus the Reincarnation of Adam?

Question

According to Edgar Cayce Jesus is the Second Adam. Is this not a biblical reference? I'd appreciate your thoughts and opinions, the more detailed the better.

According to the Cayce material, Jesus and Adam were different incarnations of the same Christ soul. Eve and the Virgin Mary (Jesus' twin soul) were also different incarnations of the same soul. This karmic connection between Adam and Jesus explains why Jesus was able to pay the "karmic debt" by atoning for the "sin of Adam." This Adam-Jesus connection can be seen in the following excerpt from the Cayce readings:
Question: "When did the knowledge come to Jesus that he was to be the Savior of the world?"

Cayce: "When he fell in Eden." [2067-7]

According to Cayce, many other personalities from the Old Testament and history were also incarnations of Jesus. The Cayce material describes the entire Christian Bible as part of the story of Jesus' long struggle to attain "Christhood" and provide humanity a pattern to do the same.

Amilius
Amilius was the first expression of Divine Mind (the logos); the Christ soul before his incarnation into a physical body (corresponding to Genesis 1); the entity that Cayce described living in the lost civilization of Atlantis who redirected the process of human evolution by creating a more appropriate physical form for the influx of souls to incarnate into rather than incarnating into the ape-like human form which souls had entangled themselves in.
Adam
Adam was the first "son of man" and "son of God"; the Christ soul after his incarnation into a physical body (corresponding to Genesis 2).

Enoch
Enoch was the antideluvian patriarch who journeyed to heaven to receive mysteries.
Hermes
Hermes, also known as Thoth, was the architect of the Great Pyramid and the sage who began the Hermetic tradition.

Melchizedek
Melchizedek was the mystical high priest and king of Salem (ancient Jerusalem).

Joseph was the son of Jacob who became the Prince of Egypt.
Joshua was the warrior who led the Israelites into the Promised Land.
Asaph was the music director and seer who served under David and Solomon.
Jeshua was the high priest who helped organize the return from exile and the rebuilding of the temple (as recounted in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah) and who is claimed by Cayce to have compiled and translated the books of the Bible
Zend, also spelled "Zen", "Zan", "Sen", or "San," was the father of Zoroaster who wrote the Zend Avesta and founded the religion Zoroastrianism

Jesus was the man who attained complete "at-one-ment" as the divine-human unity known as "the Christ"

The Christ soul will reincarnate again to be the Messiah foretold by the Hebrew prophets in order to usher in the so-called "Throne of David" (i.e., the kingdom of heaven) on Earth.

According to Cayce, the "fall of man" was an event recorded symbolically in Genesis where souls from heaven first descended to the earth plane to began incarnating as humans. The first wave of souls to incarnate (known in the Bible as "the sons of men") became entrapped in the earth plane accidentally, through their misuse of free will. These events gave rise to legends of the "fall of the angels" and to mythical beasts of the kind described in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

The second wave of incarnations (known in the Bible as "the sons of God") consisted of those souls led by Amilius - the Christ soul - who voluntarily became entrapped in order to assist the first wave of trapped souls. They accomplished this by steering the process of physical evolution in a way that created more appropriate physical forms for these souls. Cayce places Amilius on Atlantis, but says that he did not physically incarnate until the human physical form had been created, at which time the Genesis accounts of Adam and Eve begin. Cayce sometimes used the word "Adam" to also refer to the entire group of souls which had accompanied the Christ soul into incarnating into the earth plane and who incarnated as the five races of humanity on five separate continents.

Adam (as the Christ soul) joined his twin soul Eve in allowing himself to be seduced by materiality himself. This is symbolized by his acceptance of "the forbidden fruit." The other sons of God followed his lead and incarnated, and as a result were moved to express their materiality by interbreeding with the "daughters of men" (Genesis 6:1-2) who were the homo sapiens that evolved from ape-men according to Darwin's theory of evolution. According to the Cayce material and Christian Gnosticism, their banishment from the Garden of Eden was actually a great blessing because death and reincarnation are designed to draw our attention away from materiality and the flesh, and toward our true spiritual nature

Cayce also identified Melchizedek as an incarnation of the Jesus-entity. Melchizedek was the "king of Salem" and "priest of the most high God" who shares bread and wine with Abraham in Genesis 14:18-20. Melchizedek is also mentioned both in the Dead Sea Scrolls (I I Q Melch) and the Nag Hammadi codices (NEC IX 1), where he appears as a cosmic angelic figure similar to the risen Christ. Hebrews 5:10 refers to Jesus "a high priest after the order of Melchizedek." According to Cayce, Melchizedek wrote the Book of Job which contains many unusual verses that Cayce would often quote from while in trance. For example, Cayce stated, "For, as the sons of God came together to reason, as recorded by Job, "WHO recorded same? The Son of Man! Melchizedek wrote Job!"

Cayce also identified the Biblical personality named Enoch to be a Jesus-entity incarnate. Enoch is described in several pseudepigraphal writings as well as some Kabbalistic writings. The modern Bible has a brief mention of Enoch:
"And Enoch walked with God: and he was not, for God took him." (Gen. 5:18-24)

The Books of Enoch describe the fall of the angels into materiality - the beginning of the incarnation of souls from heaven. It also describes Enoch's several heavenly journeys where it is revealed to him the future up until the time of the Messiah. Enoch is also taught traditional topics as angelology and the divine throne-chariot. The Ethiopic Enoch introduces Enoch to a messianic figure referred to as "the Son of Man." The Hebrew scripture known as "Apocalypse of Enoch" describes Enoch transfigured into an angel named Metatron. In the New Testament, Enoch is mentioned in Hebrews 11:5 and Jude 14-15, with the latter passage apparently quoting from the pseudepigaphal Enochian literature. The fact that the Bible itself quotes from the Book of Enoch is evidence that Cayce was correct about the book being a valid source for higher spiritual knowledge.

Cayce also identified the Biblical personality named Joseph (son of Jacob) as an incarnation of the Jesus-entity soul. Accordingly, Joseph's escape from the pit was not only a literal event, but a symbolic anticipation of Jesus' resurrection. Cayce's identification of Joshua, the notorious genocidal leader of Israel in the Old Testament, as an incarnation of the Jesus-entity is a little more difficult to believe. But Cayce viewed Joshua's claim to fame as being the scribe for Moses who "psychically" dictated much of what is attributed to Moses. This interesting bit of information explains how "Moses" wrote about his own death.

Another Biblical personality named by Cayce to be a Jesus-entity incarnate is the high priest named Jeshua who helped organize the return from exile and the rebuilding of the temple (see Ezra and Nehemiah). According to Cayce, this Jeshua is the one who compiled and translated the books of the Bible. In essence, Cayce identifies all these Biblical personalities to be psychic revelators.

An interesting fact is that "Joshua", "Jeshua", and "Jesus" are really the same name. The name "Jesus" is a Latin version of the Aramaic name Jeshua or "Yeshua." And Yeshua is Hebrew for Joshua or "Yehoshua." Thus, Cayce has assigned the soul-entity Jesus to be incarnations of the three Biblical characters having the same name. Cayce also mentions that Jesus was an Essene who was registered by his Essene school under the name of "Jeshua".

It is surprising to me how little of a variation in answers there were. In my opinion a culture that prides itself in independent thinking should have a vast array of opinions. I guess we have a lot of work to do.

Answer 1

It is very possible, but we will never know for sure, and it doesn't really matter if we know.

Answer 2

I don't agree with any of the writings of Edgar Cayce because his material is, to me, a bit perverted.
I do know that Jesus is the new Adam, come to redeem mankind and Mary is the new Eve...the new ark of the covenent because she carried God within her womb. This is biblical but the stuff about reincarnation is just off the wall, in my opinion. Jesus is God, come to earth, born of Mary in the flesh to redeem fallen mankind and the Christian God is the only "suffering servant" view of God. Adam was fully human whereas Jesus is both Divine and manifest Himself in the human flesh. We can get deep into theology on this one but there are many good references (mostly Catholic) I might add that can explain this much better than I have been able to here but the main point of your question was regarding reincarnation and that is not truth. Yes, Jesus is the new Adam, Mary is the new Eve, but neither are reincarnations of the original Adam and Eve.

Answer 3

I don't see why not. I am starting to do the research on this matter and a lot of evidence points to this truth, even Paul was on the right track he realized that Adam and Jesus have a lot in common, for one, they both didn't have a biological earthly father, so Adam IS the begotten son of God, and Adam and Jesus are more than likely of the same soul.

I believe Christianity has lost a lot of links and has many holes since human got their filthy hands on the word of God and in result there are SOOO many different religions.

Here is an interesting book, I have yet to read it but I believe Reincarnation IS the missing link in Christianity. ---> PDF: http://www.summituniversitypress.com/chapters/Reincarnation-The-Missing-Link-in-Christianity-sample.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Reincarnation-The-Missing-Link-Christianity/dp/0922729271

Answer 4

JESUS BIRTH IS NUMBER 62 IN GENEALOGY.

Adam is #1 to Noah #10 to ABraham #20, 14 to David is #34, 14 to Daniel in Babylon #48, and 14 to Jesus in Rome = #62 in genealogy. Matt.1:1-17;

1Cor.15:22; As in Adam we all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Answer 5

He's not the reincarnation of Adam.
But read 1 Cor. 15:45-49 for the Biblical reference.

Answer 6

Jesus is called the NEW adam, and not the second adam. He is the New adam, an Adam without Sin nor ignorance, unlike the first adam.

Answer 7

No because Adam was a sinner and Jesus was God's only son. Since Jesus was basically a form of God and Adam was a moral sinner I'd say no.

Answer 8

No, Adam was perfect before he sinned and Jesus was born perfect without any sin. That's why the reference to him being the second Adam.

Answer 9

No where in the bible does it say that Jesus is the Reincarnation of Adam. The only relative links that are said to be linked to Jesus is his father who is God.

Answer 10

The technology prooved that each and each guy or woman has his/her very own fingerprint and billions of years yet another one cant have a similar fingerprint.which ability there is no reincarnation.Unbelievers will ask God till now stepping into to hell:Please enable us to stay one greater time in international we promise this time we can be believers as you desire. God will refuse this.

Answer 11

No, not the reincarnation.
Rather he meant Jesus was the man who came to fix all the problems the "first Adam" introduced into mankind by his bad actions. Simple??