Foundational Laws

Edgar Cayce's Universal Laws

A reference guide to foundational principles that link physical, mental, and spiritual development through thought, intent, purpose, and action.

Universal Laws

"Spirit is the Life, Mind is the builder, Physical is the Result" - Edgar Cayce

Overview

Dating back into prehistory, some Universal Laws reflect fundamental biological imperatives. These are known as the Laws of Self: Physical Preservation and Perpetuation of Self via Procreation. As we advance with these laws, they become less limited to self.

Everything in the Universe is governed by Universal Laws active across physical, mental, and spiritual worlds. The Law of Cause and Effect, for example, is central in physics and reaches into interpersonal justice and, when transcending lifetimes, into Karma and Grace.

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Law of One

"We are One" is the law that encompasses all the others.

Law of Love

"Love is Law/Law is Love" is applied as giving in action. It is presented here as a selfless practice that aligns us with a universal force that acts like a matrix.

Law of Faith

You know how having confidence can work like magic? It applies universally.

Cause and Effect

"For every effect there is a cause" connects natural law, ethical consequence, and personal responsibility in one continuous pattern.

Law of Karma and Grace

When cause and effect transcends lifetimes it becomse the Law of Karma and Grace. Grace is granted for good behaviour.

Law of Increase

The spirit of action multiplies result. Inner quality magnifies outer expression because intention is everything.

Law of Mercy

Never put off or hesitate to ease the mind of another.

Law of Relativity

In the context of physics The Law of Relativity includes the physical relationships between everything from atoms to planets including chemical and energy-related phenomena. Individually we are locally proximal and cleansing our earthly interpersonal relationships while being one with every force in the Universe and seeking to know our relative relationship of unicity to the conditions upon which all life giving forces depend. "We seek and find unicity with the source of life via knowing relativity."

Practice and Development

Law of Faith is presented as both Universal Law and Fruit of the Spirit.

The First Lesson: "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it does not behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us." Until this is learned, spiritual and soul development remains limited.

The Fruits of the Spirit are the personal behaviours, derived from these laws, to practice, along with the behavioural Gifts of the Spirit.

Power of Expectancy: not a standalone Universal Law, yet a multiplier of creative force. Asking while expecting little introduces a barrier.

The Whole Law: "Love God, eschew evil, and love thy neighbour as thyself. There is no law above this."

Integration

All individuals are subject to Universal Laws until they become aligned with the law in a constructive way through thought, intent, and purpose. As individuals apply the laws with less doubt, fear, and animosity, and with selfless purpose, they become more fully congruent with those laws, and unseen forces begin to act in their favour.