This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 20th day of October, 1925, in accordance with request made by her son, [900].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 2:15 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City.
1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of [106] of New York City, and the dreams this body had on the dates which I will give you. You will give the interpretation and lessons to be gained from each of these, as I read same to you, and you will answer the questions which I will ask you regarding same.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [106]. This we have had here before. The dreams as we see that come to the entity are those correlations of the physical with the subconscious forces of the body. And from same there may be gained those truths, those lessons, which, used aright, may be for the development of the body, spiritually, mentally, financially. Ready for dream.
3. (Q) Monday morning, September 28, 1925, Apartment 103, ... St., New York City. "The heavens seemed to open up and a great, powerful, light appeared to me and to envelope me." (A) This, as we see, is an emblematical way of the subconscious forces expressing to the mental conscious forces of the entity the great lessons, the great truths, which are seen in the motherhood of the entity, seeing the satisfaction, the conditions which surround those near and dear to the entity in the physical way. And the lesson as may be gained to the entity is in the strength in unity of purpose and the oneness of the social relations as may be made with the entities seen in the rest of the dream, before the light appears to the entity, see?
This, then, in that way, that manner, is expressing to the entity those conditions existent in the mind of the body, [106].
Then use same, by keeping same in that way and manner which will keep those conditions now existent.
4. (Q) Thursday morning, October 15, 1925, in Apartment ..., New York City. "A policeman was leading a man who had his two hands tied up across his chest. The policeman led him up to the gallows about which a great crowd of people
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gathered. Just as they were about to slip the hang noose over his head he slipped down a long slide - the detective clinging to him. The man, however, crawled desperately and speedily on his stomach through the crowd which milled about, thus escaping the detective. I could see his black nude form as he crawled very quickly along the ground. Finally he came into a yard of a brick house - still crawling on this stomach very fast.
He continued in this manner until he bumped his head on the brick wall of the house. This threw him backwards and stunned him. As he lay there on his back, an old woman came out of the house and regarded him. She started to do something and as she did so the man stood up and the back of him suddenly appeared to me as a nude negro, with an animal's tail attached. He resembled an animal or a negro animal." (A) In this we find there is presented to the mind of the entity the study and conversation that the entity has engaged in, giving emblematically from the subconscious mind those correlations of conditions which have been visioned through the mental forces of the body, and brought in relation to the conditions as existent in the mind (only) of the entity in the present.
As is seen, then, in the crowd, the multitudes, seeking the mysterious, the conditions that bring the great distress to someone through their own doings. The sliding away represents, then, the escape of truth in a manner, see? though appearing in a dark form, taking on, as it were, those conditions which become the way of destruction, the way of fear to the body-mind. And in this escape we find there comes then that truth that must come up again, though it be submerged by multitudes, by groups, though it be encased in those conditions which to the entity become obnoxious in many ways.
The wall represents that to which it must eventually come, for bricked wall represents that embankment, or that condition or wall to which all truths must eventually come for its undoing or making, see?
The assistance from the rebound, caused by striking wall, brings then the help or aid to the truth as seen, yet when standing up, standing erect, again assuming those conditions, those proportions, to the body that still grow even more grotesque than that seen in the body about to be hanged. Taking on the animal form, then, presenting to the
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entity, itself, the still more dreaded conditions.
The lesson then: Study all elements of truth that are presented to the entity in every manner, finding their correlations one with another. And though there may appear those things that become troublesome, obnoxious, to the tastes, to the mind, to all of the phases of the mind in its high mental development, there comes in each that lesson from which the entity may gain knowledge and understanding of conditions existent in a phenomenized world - through MIND.
5. (Q) How does this apply in my practical life and to what or whom does it definitely refer? (A) To truths that are seen in the daily life of the entity, that become obnoxious at times. For as the lesson is given, though these may appear so, study same. For knowledge becomes power when correctly applied in the minds and lives of individuals who would gain the ascent through same.