This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 17th day of September, 1926, in accordance with request made by her husband, [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 12:00 Noon - Eastern Standard Time. ..., N.J.
1. GC: You will have before you the dreams this body had on the dates which I will give you, and you will give the interpretation and lesson to be gained from each of these. You will answer the questions which I will ask you regarding same.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [136]. This we have had here before. The dreams, the visions, the impressions as are gained in experiences through the subconscious forces, are giving to the entity those lessons, as may be applied in the physical body, the physical mind, and in the material manner, as has been outlined for the body. The lessons as are being gained by same are as the truths that come by the entity making itself in an attunement and an at-onement with those universal forces, into which the body-conscious mind enters when in the somnambulistic state, or in sleep: for the subconscious force operates on.
3. Use same, then, and apply same for the better conditions, the better understanding of life and life's purposes, and of those conditions through which the entity passes. For each experience APPLIED is a development for the entity. Without an application of the experience is to act in that way that brings condemnation, or a mis-application of the advantages as may be gained by knowledge. Ready for dream.
4. (Q) Dream of recent date. My mother appeared to me and her eye was badly swollen. She wanted me to put something over her eye. She called me aside to talk to me confidentially and we both went into the bathroom. My mother again asked for relief for her eye. "It has been given to others," she said. "Why not to me?" Then clapping her hand over her diseased eye she fell back into the bathroom dead! (A) This is as an experience to the entity, that the body conscious mind may be drawn into that attunement with those universal forces - for, as the entity gains by each experience, the knowledge of the application of universal forces in the material world becomes in that way and manner
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of the fullness of life. For, as is seen in the growing, developing stages of the entity in its present physical condition, there are those conditions in the spiritual planes taking place that draw the whole entity near that at-oneness, wherein the forces of the mother may communicate, or be drawn near to that entity, see? Then apply the lessons, the truths, given. For, as is seen in this, had those same methods been applied to that condition, the full force of that being manifested in the entity might have been brought to its full course. And again the warning to the entity, as has been given, is shown forth - that the entity may bring self in that attunement with conditions, that the full purport of that being enacted may give the better to the forces as applied in the world today.
5. (Q) Does this definitely mean that the psychic activity, that manifested as my mother in flesh form, now is aware of the experience that caused the change from flesh to the present 4th diminsional activity (death) and of the treatment, as given by the readings, that would have made unnecessary this eye experience causing the changed conditions - i.e. death? (A) Conscious of those conditions in that at-oneness of the forces as are manifest between the two entities in this condition, yes.
6. (Q) Is my mother trying to confirm this to me, that I may learn and achieve greater faith? (A) Giving the lessons, the experience, that that as has been given may be accomplished in this entity, [136].
7. (Q) Morning of August 17. My mother appeared to me. I saw her very distinctly. She said to me: "You should go to the osteopath. You ought to be ashamed of yourself! If [900] wants you to go to the osteopath, you should go." (A) She should go - just as has been directed in those elements and those conditions, that the greater experience may come in that way and manner. Again the lesson to the entity, and the verifications of the truths as are seen and have been given from time to time.
8. (Q) Did [900]'s prayers that he has told me of, and that were to the effect that just this should happen (i.e. that my mother should join him in influencing me) in any way bring about this experience, or rather would it have come to me when it did, because I wanted my mother and needed her? The latter explains the attunement - my mind with my mother's - any bearing on the other condition [900]? (A) The prayers of the righteous shall save many. "Where
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two or three are joined together in one purpose, I am in the midst of same." The combination, then, of both - for the supplication is putting self in that attunement to those forces as manifest in the growth, the development, of spiritual forces as are manifested in the material world.
9. (Q) Morning of September 4. Something seemed wrong with my teeth. Germ of some kind in the gums. (A) Rather again the warning, that what has been given that the entity should use occasionally for teeth and gums be applied. For the conditions which arise in the physical body in this body-development from within call on all forces of the physical body. Hence it puts the body in that at-onement with all force. This, then, is as the warning, rather than of specific conditions. Then apply that as has been given.
10. (Q) Dream of recent date. I was sick in a hospital and my mother was with me. It was either to have my baby or that I had a miscarriage again. Something seemed wrong with my busts, and my mother said it should be remedied. (A) Again we find this full correlation of this at-onement and, as it were, the guiding forces of the mother directing the body in its various conditions, and giving to the entity that condition wherein that the body should prepare itself for the reception of those forces necessary to give the better life to that life dependent upon the entity. The direct connection then - the entity should nurse the baby itself, see?
11. (Q) Is anything wrong with my busts - just what and why? (A) Nothing wrong - only that necessary preparation as needs be for such conditions when this is to be done.
12. (Q) Summing up my condition in general - is it now more favorable to health, strength and complete 9 month pregnancy? (A) More healthful - in better condition in mind and in body.
13. (Q) Morning of September 4, 1926. [900] paid too much for seats to theatre. They were in Row M. I was angry with him. (A) Let not, then, those conditions that are seen in theatre enter into that of the purpose in mind towards any condition enacted from within. Not that the entity should not visit the theatre. Rather choose those elements from same that are as building experiences for conditions in the body-mind and the body-force of the entity.
14. (Q) Morning of September 5. Mother ... and her home in Indiana. There seemed to be ghosts there. (A) Rather that indication of those fears, those thoughts that do enter in regarding the physical health of individuals of this household. Ghosts, then, of the mind,
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see? fear.
15. (Q) Morning of September 5. My mother appeared to me. She said to me: "I am alive." (A) (Interrupting) She IS alive!
16. (Q) (Continuing) "Something is wrong with your sister's leg, or shoulder." (or both - I don't clearly remember) "She ought see a doctor about it." (A) This, as is seen, to the entity, is that experience drawing closer and closer to that at-oneness with the spiritual forces manifest through the at-onement of the forces manifested in this material plane. For, as is seen, the mother, THROUGH the entity's OWN mind, is as the mother to all in that household. Warning, then, of conditions that may arise, and of conditions existent. Then, warn the sister as regarding same, see?
17. (Q) Now here is a definite proof - that if my mother can tell me that something is the matter with my sister and of which trouble I am ignorant, then I must conclude - (A) (interrupting) Then the body is ignorant only in the physical sense. The subconscious is in at-onement with the mother and the sister, in the subconscious state, see? Understand these conditions, as the entity attempts to gain the lesson that is being given.
18. (Q) If it were only a dream of my own, why would my mother direct my mind to a condition in space of which I am unaware and towards which I have not turned my attention (i.e. my sister's health), because I do not know of any ill health there existing. It is evident, then, that some mind, namely my mother's, that is able to cognize from a center of consciousness that encompasses all of space is able to direct my consciousness to this other consciousness. Thus the will or desire of this higher seeing mind (my mother's) directed my thoughts - ideas - or mind, to another condition of which then my mother and myself, under the direction of her will, both became aware, but of which the object of our consideration (my sister) was not aware, but of which her desire or will confined her center of consciousness to those ideas which only the sensuous consciousness may use, not permitting them to be put at the disposal of this higher will or consciousness - i.e. my mother in the 4th dimension will and allow the latter to dominate my consciousness (by subjecting the physical - in sleep), that higher will (my mother's desire) will make itself known to my consciousness, which the latter will translate into ideas regarding any condition that this higher will (or desire) is directing both our center of consciousness, I alone may not do this, because my will keeps the center of consciousness bound to
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my body, but I may transcend my intellect and allow my mother's will, the center of consciousness of which embraces all of space, to direct my awareness to conditions in space, of which I otherwise, would have no knowledge. IN CONCLUSION, THEN, it is thru the intellect that I become an entity or consciousness, capable of consciousness of the one will or creative activity that embraces all other forms of this creative activity - i.e. space. The intellect is the form in which the form is filled with that necessary experience that will make me conscious of the one creative desire or will and the action of this will to extend the mind in either of two directions - i.e. 4th dimensional creation, or when inverted - extended or externalized in the second atomic direction. Correct? (A) Correct - with that as has been given as to direct the modifications of same - correct.
19. (Q) Then, is there anything wrong with my sister, [3816]? What? How remedied? (A) Just as given. Be warned of this existent condition as in limbs, through poisons from the system - auto-intoxication. Increase eliminations.
20. (Q) Monday morning, september 13. I was struck by lightning. (A) Fear - which should be cast out, as is seen or manifest through this condition. Only that as of fear, and the same as is manifested, shown, in the relations to other conditions and lessons as are being presented to the entity. This, then, a portion of the whole.
21. (Q) Saw my mother - very sick. We had a reading for her given by Cayce and taken by [900]. A few of the treatments suggested in the reading were administered. [900] claimed that a gradual and little improvement was indicated in my mother's condition. The family, however, were impatient, and complained they could see no improvement. (A) This is the indication, this is the experience, this is the lesson, to the entity of the various modes of how man would work, and how the beneficient forces of all creative energy are operating in the forces manifest in the material world. For, as is seen, the lessons are as those given. Man seeks to work fast, while creative energy unfolds little by little, just as man's experiences open, little by little, that knowledge of the creative forces as may be manifest through man and man's action in the material world.
22. We are through for the present.