What exact Cayce readings reference the Sphinx and the Hall of Records, and where can they be read in full?
Executive summary
Edgar Cayce’s corpus contains a small set of named readings that explicitly link a “Hall of Records” with the Great Sphinx and describe an entrance near the Sphinx’s right forepaw—most often cited are reading 5748-6 (July 1, 1932) and several readings from 1933 and later (including 378-16, 3575-2, 2012-1, 5750-1 and others) that repeat or amplify the claim [1] [2] [3]. Those readings and many more from Cayce’s trance sessions are available in full from the Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE) archives and in public transcriptions such as Crystalinks and other compendia referenced below [4] [5] [1].
1. Which exact Cayce readings mention the Sphinx or a Hall of Records
The readings most commonly cited by proponents as explicitly tying the Hall of Records to the Sphinx include reading 5748-6 (given July 1, 1932), which discusses a “storehouse, or record house” and a passage “from the right forepaw to this entrance of the record chamber” and names the Sphinx as a “Memorial” or “Mystery of Mysteries” [1]. Additional numbered sessions are repeatedly invoked in secondary sources: 378-16 is quoted as placing the hall “between, then, the Sphinx and the river,” while readings such as 3575-2 and 2012-1 are cited for references to chambers “of the way between the Sphinx and the pyramid of records” and to three repositories of Atlantean records [2] [3]. ARE’s own catalog and summaries also list readings like 5750-1 and 470-35 that connect the Pyramid/Sphinx corpus to a promised future discovery or “opening” of records [3].
2. Where those readings can be read in full
The Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE), the organization founded to preserve Cayce’s work, hosts the complete readings and provides searchable transcriptions and contextual blog posts that cite and excerpt the Hall of Records material (see ARE content pages summarizing the Hall of Records clues and related readings) [4] [5] [3]. Independent websites and compendia also reproduce full readings or long excerpts; for example, Crystalinks reproduces Reading 5748-6 in full on its Edgar Cayce – Great Pyramid and Sphinx page [1]. Wikipedia’s Hall of Records article summarizes Cayce’s claims and points to the October–December 1933 cluster of readings referring to Giza, though it is a tertiary source and not a primary transcription [6].
3. How consistent are the readings and what they actually say
The readings are internally consistent in key motifs—multiple Atlantean record repositories, a Giza site associated with the Sphinx, and an entrance near the Sphinx’s right paw—but the material is dispersed across numerous trance sessions, sometimes phrased as symbolic, prophetic, or conditional rather than as a precise archaeological blueprint [1] [2] [3]. ARE’s research articles treat the readings as a mix of literal clues and symbolic material and present astronomical and textual cross-references as part of interpretive work, not as finished proof [4].
4. Where reporting and investigators diverge: caveats and failed searches
Mainstream archaeological and geophysical work has not produced an Atlantean “Hall of Records” under the Sphinx, and investigations (including acoustic work noted by ARE and SRI-supported surveys) have yielded ambiguous anomalies but no definitive chamber matching Cayce’s description; Wikipedia and independent commentaries emphasize that the Hall’s existence rests on Cayce’s visionary claims rather than empirically confirmed discovery [6] [5] [2]. Secondary books and popular writers have expanded or reinterpreted Cayce—some proposing an astronomical “Sphinx” constellation rather than a single monument—so readers should distinguish Cayce’s numbered readings from later speculative syntheses [7] [2].
5. How to read the primary material responsibly
For anyone tracing the original texts, consult ARE’s searchable reading archive and the specific transcriptions reproduced by organizations such as Crystalinks for the primary session numbers cited above [4] [1]. Complement those primary readings with critical summaries—Wikipedia’s Hall of Records entry and investigative accounts that document SRI-era tests and the history of searches at Giza—to understand how Cayce’s claims have been interpreted, amplified, and tested [6] [2]. If a particular reading number is needed in full, ARE’s archive is the authoritative source to retrieve the complete transcription and context [4].