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“In the studies, then, know where ye are going ... to find that ye only lived, died and were buried under the cherry tree in Grandmother’s garden does not make thee one whit better neighbor, citizen, mother or father! But to know that ye spoke unkindly and suffered for it and in the present may correct it by being righteous – that is worthwhile!” - Edgar Cayce reading 5753-2
In 1901, at the age of 24, Edgar Cayce gave one of his first readings on himself, diagnosing a health condition. But it wouldn’t be until 1923 that the subject of reincarnation would be explored in a reading given to a printer from Ohio. It was during a set of philosophical questions that Cayce first began to talk about reincarnation. Eventually, this lead to an entirely new way of using Cayce's abilities that came to be known as Life Readings.
Reincarnation is the belief that each of us goes through a series of lifetimes for the purpose of spiritual growth and soul development. The past merely provided a framework of potentials and probabilities and an individual’s choices, actions, and free will in the present determines the actual experience lived this time around. Rather than being a fatalistic approach to life, it is much more one of nearly limitless opportunities.Within this framework of lessons that need to be learned as the soul strives to meet itself is the central idea that the soul is constantly experiencing the consequences of its previous choices. This concept is expressed in Biblical terminology as, “What you sow, you must reap” and is generally labeled “like attracts like” by students of reincarnation.
https://www.edgarcayce.org/the-readings/philosophy-reincarnation/
Link for Cayce's list re incarnations of Jesus:
https://www.near-death.com/reincarnation/jesus/edgar-cayce-on-the-past-lives-of-jesus.html#a02