This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 16th day of February, 1931, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [53].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 3:00 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., N.Y.
1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of [53]. You will give a mental, physical and spiritual reading, answering the questions as I ask them, giving suggestions for the betterment of any of these.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [53] - this we have had before, in the physical.
3. In many respects we find the body continuing on the improve. There are at times tendencies for a feeling - lately - over the body as of too quick a pulsation, and some little dizziness from same; congestion somewhat of the liver, or it - the eliminating organ - adjusting itself to the manner in which administrations for aid have been given the body, with cold making it more acute at times. This we would stir with an active force in the form of a vegetable compound, or with small quantities of any active force with same, WITH the manipulations increased in the area.
4. The general conditions through the limbs, the general circulation through same, are constantly on the improve, and we will find that - with the keeping up, for the time being at least, of those suggestions that were given for improvement - the body will continue on the improve. Ready for questions.
5. (Q) What would be best for the body to take to stir the liver? (A) As given, any that acts as a cathartic with the liver. Better as a vegetable compound. This may be BEST suggested by the type or the kind of manipulation the one who treats the body expects to give.
6. (Q) Is body gaining weight too fast? (A) Not too fast, provided the exercises or the use of the lower limbs and the whole body - are kept well in accord with the increase in the vitality or vital forces of the body.
7. (Q) Should body change diet in any way? (A) It may, if it so desires, to reduce - that is, to prevent too much taking on. Leave off too much starches, or change to a diet something of this nature for the next
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thirty to forty days: The only character of meat being either kid or lamb; nerve building fruits - pineapple; no sweets; no butter - but taking everything in as near its normal state as possible, without the additions of sugars; no potatoes of any kind. These, as we find, would aid in preventing too much increase in weight.
8. (Q) Should body continue prescription? (A) For time being, yes. When it's to be filled again, or re-filled, then leave off. Decrease in the quantity until this is gone.
9. (Q) Is there anything more body can do for numbness and weakness in leg and ankles and feet? (A) Only increasing the circulation by the relief of those pressures in the lumbar and in the locomotory regions. These will continue to allow the normalcy to return to the body.
10. (Q) Is body physically all right except legs now? (A) Except those deteriorations that have existed in the body from those hindrances in locomotion, and in the general replenishing forces.
11. (Q) Should body go home soon? or where should he find right work? (A) These may be applied wherever the body finds the surroundings most in accord with that the body has builded and is building in the mental and spiritual attitude. These may appear to be of an indirect or of an uncertain manner, but in these channels with which the body is acquainted the body may find the nicer, the better, the more CONGENIAL surroundings for the body's labors.
12. (Q) What kind of work should body follow, or do? (A) That which has been followed, or found by the body to be that more in keeping with the nature or the tendencies of the body.
13. (Q) Will body's health be so can safely have children, and when? (A) This, as we find, will be better, so that the body may BEGET children, in an early portion of the present year - or in the latter portion of present year. [See 53-4, Par. R11.]
14. (Q) Any advice regarding mental or spiritual body? (A) As the body has builded in the mental forces, this recuperation has begun. Keep an ideal and work towards same.
15. We are through for the present.
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