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The scorecard, 1929 to 2034

What did Edgar Cayce predict?

He forecast a long fall in stock prices in March 1929, the end of the Second World War in 1945, earth changes and a shift of the poles between 1958 and 2001, part of Atlantis rising in 1968, and that the hope of the world would come out of Russia, with no date given. We found 51 forecasts in the readings that can be checked, noted the reading number and the day each was given, and set it beside what happened. Fourteen came true and 22 did not. Ten are too loose to score, and five carry no date and are still open.

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No reading names 2026 or 2027. Here is what they do name.

51 forecasts · 37 readingsgiven 1929 to 1944
  • 14 happened
  • 22 did not happen
  • 10 too vague to test
  • 5 not yet due

Every row is in the table below with its reading number, so you can look each one up with the A.R.E.

Time arrows, 1925 to 2100

From the day it was said to the year it named

An arc leaves the date of the session and lands on the year it named. All of these sessions fall between 1929 and 1944, so the left half of the axis covers only 1925 to 1950 and the right half covers 1950 to 2100. A forecast with no date lands in the box at the far right. One that came true without a date sits at the year it happened, with a hollow end. Tap an arc or use the arrow keys to read it.

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The arrow keys step through all 51 in order of the date they were given.

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  • Happened means the event took place, on time when a time was given. Where it came true only in part, the note says which part.
  • Did not happen means the date passed without it, or the event never came.
  • Too vague to test covers an answer that allows every outcome, an inner experience, or a claim with no place and no time.
  • Not yet due is a plain claim with no date that has not come about, plus the one year still ahead, 2034.

2026 and 2027

No reading names 2026 or 2027

We ran both numbers through the full text of all 14,301 readings. Each turns up only as a case number, because clients are filed under numbers in place of names. Client 2026 was a man of 53 who had a health reading at Virginia Beach on October 14, 1939 (reading 2026-1), and client 2027 a woman of 42 who had hers two days later (2027-1). Neither number says anything about the future.

The videos and lists that promise his forecast for 2026 give no reading numbers. Beside this text is every year after 1945 that a reading points to, leaving out personal dates such as a house to be built in 1946.

After 2001 the record names one year, 2034, and that line is about the lessons of a study group in Norfolk. For the years past 2000 there is one direct answer. In August 1936 a lawyer of 35 asked what change would begin in the year 2000 to 2001, and the whole reply in reading 826-8 was “When there is a shifting of the poles ... Or a new cycle begins.” Everything else said about our century comes with no date at all, on Russia and China, which you can read further down.

  1. 1945 to 1946The war ends and a new order of peace begins. 270-47, 1151-29, 1152-11
  2. 1950 to 1958The end of a period counted in the Great Pyramid. 5748-5
  3. 1958Changes reach Norfolk, the earth changes start, the Hall of Records tablets are found and the pyramid builders' force is discovered. 311-10, 378-16, 3976-15, 2329-3, 5748-6
  4. 1968 and 1969Poseidia rises. 958-3
  5. 1998The changes end with a new reign, the Messiah enters, Ra-Ta returns, the record at Giza runs out and the turn of the age shows. 378-16, 3976-15, 5748-5, 294-151, 378-14, 1602-3
  6. 2000 to 2001A shifting of the poles, or a new cycle. 826-8
  7. 2034A study group's lessons still alive. 262-71

What came true

Fourteen hits, and most of them are about the war

The strongest run concerns the Second World War. In August 1935 a banker asked whether the Nazi persecutions would end in war or in Hitler's overthrow. The answer was neither in the near term, and that when Hitler fell it would be by overthrow or by war from outside, with France, England and Russia joined. That is how it went. In October 1939 a radio sales manager was told the war would run through 1941 and 1942 if it outlasted 1939, and that Hitler would live past 1940. Three sessions in 1941 put the peace at 1944 to 1946, and every one of them names 1945.

The end in the Pacific is the cleanest call. In December 1943 the same sales manager asked when the war with Japan would end and heard that it would come much later than the war with Germany and close more suddenly. Japan announced its surrender on August 15, 1945, three months after Germany, nine days after Hiroshima.

The line fan lists repeat most comes from June 1939, at the A.R.E.'s yearly congress. It warned of division and mob rule in the land “before there is the second of the Presidents that next will not live through his office”. Franklin Roosevelt died in office in April 1945 and John Kennedy was shot in November 1963, so we count it. Six presidents had already died in office between 1841 and 1923, which makes two more in the next quarter century likely enough.

The smaller hits are about money and timing. A railroad agent was told in April 1932 that “In the Spring of ’33 will be the real definite improvements.” The economy hit bottom that winter and the banks reopened in March 1933. A 1937 session saw no new depression in 1939 or 1940, and none came. Others said Britain was losing its fight in India and that America would not declare war in the two weeks after April 28, 1941.

The 1929 crash, session by session

Morton Blumenthal, client 900, and his brother, client 137, were New York stockbrokers who asked about the market for years. From November 1925 to March 1929 we count 27 of their readings that speak of a general break, decline or downward move to come.

  1. Reading 900-425, the one fans cite: “There is an expected long decline.” Asked if that meant a bear market, the answer was “Much too much mixed for a real bear market”.
  2. 137-117 warns that an unchecked fight over the Federal Reserve would end in panic in the money centers.
  3. 900-451 says an inquiry into RCA will dent prices and the big stocks will then reach new highs.
  4. The Dow closes at its peak, 381.17.
  5. Black Thursday. A session for the brothers that day gives no prices, and his letter the next day says so and puts one client's loss at 50 to 60 thousand dollars in cash.
  6. The Dow bottoms at 41.22, down 89 percent.
  7. It gets back to the 1929 peak.

So the March warning was real, and the fall came six months later and far deeper than that session allowed. We score 900-425 and 137-117 as hits and the August session as a miss.

What did not happen

Twenty-two misses, led by the earth changes

The forecasts with firm dates mostly failed. The year 1936 was to bring a catastrophe that would break up Russia, the United States, Japan and Britain, an earthquake that would dwarf San Francisco's of 1906, and a shift in the earth's axis. A session in January 1934 listed changes for that same year, from open water in northern Greenland to new land off Tierra del Fuego, and none of them came.

The same session set the big earth changes between 1958 and 1998, with the west of America broken up and “The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea.” In 1941 a widow asking where to live heard that Los Angeles and San Francisco “will be destroyed before New York even”, that much of New York City would go a generation later, and that the coasts of the Carolinas and Georgia would go sooner still. Poseidia was to rise in 1968 and 1969, and the Atlantis page covers what divers found off Bimini that year. The tablets of the Hall of Records were to be found by 1958.

The war gave misses as well as hits. In November 1933 a group asked if Hitler's policies would lead toward war and heard “Anything else; if the policies are adhered to. THIS is propaganda!” In June 1938 the Soviet dictatorship was said to be moving toward peace, fifteen months before it invaded Poland from the east. And in December 1943, about Germany, “This will end in the spring of ’44.” It ended in May 1945.

How far ahead it aimed

  • Under 3 years15 forecasts: 7 happened, 6 did not happen, 2 too vague to test
  • 3 to 10 years6 forecasts: 2 happened, 3 did not happen, 1 too vague to test
  • 11 to 30 years10 forecasts: 10 did not happen
  • Over 30 years6 forecasts: 1 did not happen, 4 too vague to test, 1 not yet due
  • No date14 forecasts: 5 happened, 2 did not happen, 3 too vague to test, 4 not yet due

One square per forecast, counted from the day of the session to the first year it named. Of the 15 aimed less than three years out, 7 came true. All ten aimed 11 to 30 years out failed.

The lists online, checked

What the popular lists say and what the readings say

The top results for his predictions are videos and countdown lists that give no reading numbers. We took the claims they repeat and looked each one up.

  • Atlantis would rise in 1968, said in 1938

    The only session that dates it is 958-3, given on June 28, 1940, for a secretary of 31. It names Poseidia and the years 1968 and 1969. No land rose.

  • He foresaw the deaths of two presidents

    Reading 3976-24, June 16, 1939, as quoted above. We score it a hit, with the odds noted.

  • He predicted the fall of the Soviet Union

    No reading names a collapse or a year. What they say, in 3976-10 in 1932 and 3976-29 in 1944, is that “out of Russia comes again the hope of the world”, through freedom and religion and in friendship with America.

  • He predicted the 1929 crash in 1924 or 1925

    The broker sessions spoke of a coming general break from November 1925 on, usually weeks away. The clear warning of a long fall is March 6, 1929.

  • The Depression would lift in spring 1933

    Yes. Reading 311-8, April 9, 1932.

  • Revolutions abroad, said in 1935

    Reading 261-14, March 26, 1935, says unrest in many foreign nations would end in revolution unless attitudes changed. No country and no year, so we cannot score it.

  • Hitler would fall only to an overthrow or an outside war

    Yes. Reading 261-16, August 19, 1935.

  • The Jews would return to their land, said in 1932

    The line is in 3976-13, dated November 4, 1933, and speaks of a return with no place and no year.

  • NASA confirmed the pole shift in 1998

    The question in 826-8 was about the earth in 2000 to 2001. The magnetic pole has drifted for over a century, about 1,100 km in the 1900s, while the axis the earth spins on did not shift.

  • He predicted the Dead Sea Scrolls

    The Essenes come up in 135 readings, but we found none that forecasts a find of their writings.

  • He predicted his own death

    That story belongs to the last weeks of 1944 and is told on the page about his death.

  • His predictions for 2026

    None exist. The number 2026 is a case number.

The scorecard

All 51 forecasts with reading number, target and outcome

The fourth column is our summary of the forecast, not a quote. Sort by the day it was given, the date it aimed at or the verdict. A reading number such as 3976-15 means client or subject 3976, session 15, and any of them can be looked up in our reading finder.

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ReadingGivenAimed atWhat it said, in our wordsWhat happenedVerdict
900-425Mar 6, 19291929 onwardA long fall in stock prices was on the way. The same session held that the market was too mixed for a true bear market.Prices climbed for six more months to a Dow peak of 381.17 on September 3, 1929, broke in late October and slid to 41.22 by July 8, 1932, an 89 percent loss. The long fall came; the no bear market part was wrong.Happened
137-117Apr 6, 1929no dateIf the fight over how to use the Federal Reserve ran on unchecked, panic would hit the money centers and close the boards in many cities.The crash came that October. In March 1933 a national bank holiday shut the banks, and Wall Street stayed closed until March 15.Happened
900-451, 900-452Aug 29, 1929autumn 1929An inquiry into RCA would knock prices back for a short time, after which RCA and the big mergers would go on to new highs. On September 7 another session saw about three weeks of choppy trading.Black Thursday came seven weeks later. The Dow did not get back to its September 1929 peak until November 23, 1954.Did not happen
3976-8Jan 15, 1932no dateBritain was losing its fight in India, because non-resistance is hard to break.India became independent on August 15, 1947.Happened
3976-8Jan 15, 1932within five yearsAsked if the United States would go to war within five years, the answer was that it depended on how many people stood with what is right, whether in three years or five.No war came by 1937. A condition that covers both outcomes cannot be scored.Too vague to test
3976-10Feb 8, 1932by 1936A great catastrophe by 1936 would break up many powers, named as Russia, the United States, Japan and Britain, and redraw the maps of the world.None of the four broke up by 1936. The maps were redrawn by the war that began in 1939, and all four still stood when it ended.Did not happen
3976-10, 5748-5, 5748-6Feb 8, 19321936An upheaval in 1936, which a June 1932 session tied to the Great Pyramid, would bring wars, upheavals inside the earth and a shift in the earth's axis or its balance in space.The Spanish Civil War began on July 17, 1936. The earth's axis did not move.Did not happen
3976-10Feb 8, 1932no dateForeign interference would resettle parts of China and end, in time, with China or Japan destroyed as a nation.Japan surrendered in 1945 and both countries are still nations. With no date given, the forecast stays open.Not yet due
3976-10, 3976-12, 3976-29Feb 8, 1932no dateThe hope of the world would come out of Russia, through religious change there. In June 1944 the session added that it meant freedom, not communism, that it would take years to set, and that friendship with the United States would guide it.The Soviet Union and the United States were rivals through the Cold War, and the Soviet Union was dissolved on December 26, 1991. No reading names that end or gives a year.Not yet due
311-8Apr 9, 1932spring 1933Business would see its first real, definite improvement in the spring of 1933, with good and bad stretches before then.The economy hit bottom in the winter of 1932 to 1933. Banks reopened after the national holiday on March 13, 1933, and the Dow rose 15 percent when trading resumed.Happened
5748-5Jun 30, 19321998The Great Pyramid records the entrance of the Messiah in this period, 1998.No public figure appeared. Other readings describe the coming as something in the hearts of those who seek, which no test can reach.Too vague to test
5748-6Jul 1, 19321958The natural force used to build the Great Pyramid, the one that lets stone float, would be discovered in 1958.No such force has been found.Did not happen
294-151Jul 29, 19321998The priest Ra-Ta, the past life the readings gave him, must enter the earth again in 1998 as a liberator of the world.A rebirth cannot be checked.Too vague to test
311-10Nov 19, 1932nearer 1958The physical changes would reach Norfolk and the area around it nearer to 1958 than to 1936 or 1938.Norfolk saw nothing of the kind by 1958, or since.Did not happen
270-30Feb 13, 19331936The 1906 earthquake would look small beside what San Francisco would see in 1936.No great earthquake struck San Francisco in 1936.Did not happen
378-14Sep 26, 19331998The old record at Giza runs to 1998, counted from the death of the Son of Man.The end date of a symbolic record cannot be checked.Too vague to test
378-16Oct 29, 19331958 to 1998The change in the earth would begin in 1958 and end with upheavals and the shifting of the poles, and a new reign would begin in 1998.No upheavals and no pole shift came between 1958 and 1998.Did not happen
3976-13Nov 4, 1933no dateAsked whether Hitler's policies led toward war, the answer was anything but war, so long as those policies were kept, and that the war talk was propaganda.Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and Britain and France declared war two days later.Did not happen
3976-13Nov 4, 1933no dateThe way Hitler was treating the Jews marked the start of a return that had to come throughout the earth.Between 225,000 and 300,000 Jews reached Palestine in the Fifth Aliyah of 1929 to 1939, and fan lists tie the line to the founding of Israel. The reading names no place and no year.Too vague to test
3976-15Jan 19, 19341934Among the changes for that year, the young son of the king would soon reign in Germany.No king has reigned in Germany since.Did not happen
3976-15Jan 19, 19341934For 1934 itself, the west coast of America would change, open water would appear in northern Greenland, dry land would rise off the Caribbean, South America would shake from end to end, and land with a rushing strait would appear off Tierra del Fuego.None of these took place in 1934.Did not happen
3976-15Jan 19, 19341958 to 1998Western America broken up, most of Japan under the sea, northern Europe changed in a moment, new land off the east coast, upheavals at both poles, volcanoes in the tropics and a shift of the poles, all beginning between 1958 and 1998.Japan, the American west and northern Europe are where they were, and the poles did not shift.Did not happen
3976-15Jan 19, 1934late 1936To those who seek, the Christ spirit would appear in the latter part of 1936.An inner experience cannot be scored.Too vague to test
262-71Sep 9, 19342034The lessons of the Norfolk study group, the circle that met from 1931, would still be alive in people's hearts in 2034, if given in His name.Due in eight years. It is the only year after 2001 that any reading names.Not yet due
261-14Mar 26, 1935no dateWithout a more spiritual attitude, unrest in many foreign nations would end in revolution.The Spanish Civil War began on July 17, 1936, and fan lists cite it. No country and no date were named.Too vague to test
261-16Aug 19, 1935no dateHitler would not fall soon. When he went it would be by overthrow or by a war from outside, if France, England and Russia joined forces.Britain and France went to war with Germany in September 1939 and the Soviet Union from June 1941. Hitler died in Berlin on April 30, 1945, and Germany surrendered on May 8.Happened
826-8Aug 11, 19362000 to 2001Asked what change would begin in 2000 to 2001, the answer was a shifting of the poles, or else a new cycle beginning.The earth's axis did not shift. The north magnetic pole has been drifting all along, about 1,100 km over the 20th century and 52 km a year from 2001 to 2007, and the later A.R.E. notes point to that drift. The new cycle half cannot be tested.Did not happen
261-25Oct 4, 19361938 and 1940Unless things changed, a great upheaval would begin within months and lay the ground for a wider one across the whole world in 1938 and 1940.Japan went to war with China on July 7, 1937. Germany took Austria on March 12, 1938, and invaded France on May 10, 1940; France signed an armistice on June 22.Happened
3976-17Oct 25, 19371939 to 1940Asked whether 1939 or 1940 would open another major depression, the answer was no, unless selfish interests took control of the new laws and labor and capital came to open conflict.A sharp recession was already under way. It began in mid 1937, recovery began in mid 1938, and no new depression started in 1939 or 1940.Happened
3976-17Oct 25, 1937January 1941President Roosevelt was likely to serve out his term.He served out that term, which ended in January 1941, and died in office in April 1945.Happened
3976-17Oct 25, 19371942 to 1944A war around 1942 to 1944 involving the United States would come if it was fed as propaganda and would not come if the will for peace held. Its cause would be selfishness.The United States entered the war in December 1941. The answer allowed for both outcomes.Too vague to test
3976-19Jun 24, 1938no dateThe Russian dictatorship was falling into line with peace, would carry peace to other troubled quarters and would grow more able to hold the world at peace.The Soviet Union signed its pact with Germany on August 23, 1939 and invaded Poland on September 17.Did not happen
3976-19, 3976-24Jun 24, 1938no dateUnless its founding principles were lived, America would one day face revolution, with one section of the country turned against another.No revolution has come. The warning was conditional and had no date.Too vague to test
3976-24Jun 16, 1939no dateA division in the land, called mob rule, would come before the second of the next presidents to die in office.Franklin Roosevelt died in office on April 12, 1945 and John Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963. Six presidents had died in office between 1841 and 1923, so two more was not long odds, and what counts as mob rule is up to the reader.Happened
1602-3Sep 22, 19391998Asked whether Atlantis would rise in a sudden convulsion, the answer pointed to 1998 for much of the gradual change at the turn from the Piscean to the Aquarian age, a change that would not be cataclysmic.Nothing sudden came in 1998, and gradual change at the turn of an age gives nothing to measure.Too vague to test
257-212Oct 31, 19391941 to 1942If the European war lasted through 1939 it would last through 1941 and 1942, and Hitler would live through 1940 and beyond.The war in Europe lasted until May 1945, and Hitler lived until April 30, 1945.Happened
958-3Jun 28, 19401968 and 1969Poseidia would be among the first parts of Atlantis to rise again, in 1968 and 1969.No land rose. On September 2, 1968 divers found the Bimini Road, a line of stone blocks that geologists judge to be natural beachrock.Did not happen
270-47, 1151-29, 1152-11Apr 25, 19411944 to 1946Three sessions from 1941 set the end of the war and a new order of peace in 1944 to 1946, with 1945 named in all of them.Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945 and Japan announced its surrender on August 15, 1945.Happened
3976-26Apr 28, 1941next two weeksAmerica would not declare war in the next two weeks, though acts of aggression might wear down its resolve to stay out.Congress declared war on Japan on December 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor.Happened
3976-26Apr 28, 1941that periodStrife to watch for near Davis Strait, in Libya and Egypt, at Ankara and in Syria, in the straits north of Australia, the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.Tobruk in Libya had been under siege since April 10. Allied forces invaded Syria on June 8, 1941, and British and Soviet forces invaded Iran on August 25, partly from the Persian Gulf. Turkey kept out of the fighting, so Ankara is the miss in the list.Happened
2329-3May 1, 1941by 1958The tablets in the Hall of Records near the Sphinx would be uncovered by 1958.Nothing matching the description has been found, after radar and test drilling near the Sphinx in 1978 and surveys from 1991 to 1999.Did not happen
1152-11Aug 13, 1941next few yearsWithin a few years land would appear in the Atlantic and the Pacific, present coastlines would become seabed, and many of the war's battlefields would be under water.No coastline went under. The nearest thing is Surtsey, a volcanic island that broke the surface off Iceland on November 14, 1963 and covered 2.7 square km at its largest.Did not happen
1152-11Aug 13, 1941another generationPart of the east coast of New York, or New York City itself, would for the most part disappear, a generation on.New York is still there.Did not happen
1152-11Aug 13, 1941sooner than New YorkThe southern parts of the Carolinas and Georgia would disappear, and much sooner than New York.They have not.Did not happen
1152-11Aug 13, 1941before New YorkLos Angeles and San Francisco would be destroyed even before New York, and Virginia Beach was the safer place.Neither city was destroyed, and the generation set for New York has long passed.Did not happen
1152-11Aug 13, 1941no dateThe Great Lakes would drain into the Gulf of Mexico.They still drain to the Atlantic by the St. Lawrence. No date was given.Not yet due
257-252Mar 26, 1943April 1943 or April 1944The war might be over before April 1943 was out, if certain plans went through, or it might run to April 1944.It ran until May 1945 in Europe and August 1945 in the Pacific.Did not happen
2834-3Aug 3, 1943by 1968Over the next 25 years China would grow toward the Christian faith, and its many factions would draw together toward democracy.The People's Republic was declared on October 1, 1949. In the Cultural Revolution believers were jailed, Bibles destroyed and churches looted, and the state Protestant church ceased to exist for thirteen years.Did not happen
257-254Dec 18, 1943no dateThe war with Japan would end much later than the war with Germany and more suddenly.Hiroshima was bombed on August 6, the Soviet Union declared war on August 8, Nagasaki was bombed on August 9, and Japan announced its surrender on August 15, 1945, about three months after Germany.Happened
257-254Dec 18, 1943spring 1944The war against Germany would end in the spring of 1944, confirming a forecast from May 1941 that is not in our copy.Germany surrendered on May 7 and 8, 1945, a year later. Gladys Davis later suggested the July 20, 1944 bomb plot against Hitler, which he survived, was what had been seen.Did not happen
3976-29Jun 22, 1944no dateChina would one day be the cradle of Christianity as people live it, though that day is far off as we count time.Surveys since 2007 put China's Christians anywhere from about 20 million adults to more than 67 million. No date was given.Not yet due

How much of the work was prophecy

Forecasts were a small corner of the readings

By our sort, 29 of the 14,301 Edgar Cayce readings are about world affairs, about one in five hundred. Health readings make up 9,050. The 51 forecasts on this page come from 37 readings, and only 10 of those are among the 29.

The rest came up inside sessions for one person: the two brokers, a banker, a radio sales manager, a railroad agent, an accountant, a lawyer, a secretary, a book publisher and a widow who wanted to know where to live. Most of the famous forecasts were answers to a question someone asked about their own plans, and the A.R.E. holds the full text of each for its members.

We mark each verdict the way the hidden mystics map marks each claimed link between teachers, by what the record supports, with the source beside it.

  • Readings counted14,301
  • World affairs, by our sort29
  • Readings on this card37
  • Of those, world readings10
  • Forecasts checked51
  • Latest year named2034

Questions

His forecasts, asked plainly

Did Cayce predict anything for 2026 or 2027?

No. We searched all 14,301 readings and both numbers appear only as case numbers, for a man and a woman who had health readings in October 1939. The last years any reading names are 1998, 2000 to 2001 for a shifting of the poles, and 2034, when a Norfolk study group's lessons were to still be alive.

Which of his predictions came true?

Fourteen of the 51 we checked. The best are about the Second World War: Hitler falling by overthrow or by an outside war joined by France, England and Russia (1935), the war running through 1941 and 1942 (1939), peace in 1945 (three sessions in 1941) and the war with Japan ending later than Germany's and more suddenly (1943). A March 1929 warning of a long fall in stocks also came true, six months late.

Did he predict a pole shift?

Yes, twice with dates. A 1934 session put a shift of the poles inside the earth changes of 1958 to 1998, and a 1936 answer gave 2000 to 2001 for a shifting of the poles or a new cycle. The axis did not shift. The north magnetic pole is not fixed and moved about 1,100 km during the 20th century, which is a different thing from a shift of the poles.

Did he see the 1929 stock market crash coming?

In part. On March 6, 1929 a session for broker Morton Blumenthal expected a long decline but said the market was too mixed for a true bear market, and an April session warned of panic if the Federal Reserve fight ran unchecked. In late August the readings expected new highs, and his own letter after Black Thursday says that day's session gave no prices.

What did he say about Russia and China?

That the hope of the world would come out of Russia, through freedom and religion and in friendship with the United States, and that China would one day be the cradle of Christianity as lived. Neither has a date. A 1943 session that gave China 25 years to grow toward the Christian faith failed.

How many of the readings were predictions?

Few. By our sort only 29 of the 14,301 readings deal with world affairs. The 51 forecasts we scored come from 37 readings, and 27 of those were sessions for one person, such as a broker, a banker or a widow asking where to live.

Sources

Read for this page

  1. The readings, searched in full text, 14,301 of them, as numbered in this page and in the table. To read any of them, see the A.R.E., whose members can search them all.
  2. Markets: Wall Street crash of 1929; Emergency Banking Act of 1933; Great Depression in the United States; Recession of 1937 to 1938.
  3. The war: World War II; Molotov Ribbentrop Pact; Anschluss; Battle of France; Siege of Tobruk; Syria Lebanon campaign; Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran; Turkey in World War II; US declaration of war on Japan; 20 July plot; Victory in Europe Day; Surrender of Japan; Spanish Civil War.
  4. Nations: Presidents who died in office; Indian Independence Act 1947; Fifth Aliyah; Christianity in China; Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
  5. The earth: North magnetic pole; Surtsey; Bimini Road; Hall of Records.
  6. The fan list checked above: Listverse, Top 10 Predictions from Edgar Cayce, 2012, plus the first page of search results for his predictions for 2026, none of which gives a reading number.
  7. Counts, dates and verdicts are ours. Background notes kept with each reading served for later facts only, such as the October 1929 letter.
  8. Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993-2007 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation. All Rights Reserved.