This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 9th day of May, 1927, in accordance with request made by her husband, Mr. [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 161 West 75th Street, 12:15 Noon - Eastern Standard Time. New York City.
1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of [136] of New York City, and the dreams this body had on the dates which I will give you. You will give the interpretation and lesson to be gained from each of these, as I read them to you, and you will answer the questions which I will ask you regarding same.
2. EC: We have the body, the enquiring mind, [136]. This we have had here before. The dreams present to the entity those various phases of life and its application in the actions of individuals as related one to another, or towards conditions in the affairs of individuals; and as the truths become apparent, the entity then may apply the lessons gained in the life of self, and as applicable to others apply in same. Ready for dream.
3. (Q) While in Woman's Hospital, sometime April 4th to April 16, 1927. Heard a rapping noise or knocks. I said to myself: "That is my mother." I sat up in bed to listen for the noise and heard nothing. Again dozing I heard the knocks and again recognized them as being my mother. (A) This is presenting to the entity that individuality of presentations to the subconscious or soul self of the individuality of others, or of another. And as the entity gains the closer concept of this presentation, and of its effect in the life of self and those associated or about self, the entity may apply the truths in a better understanding of that relation of the living from plane to plane, though the consciousness of each are hemmed and hedged about, as it were, by that builded or being built in the life and action of each. Apply same.
4. (Q) Correlate with [900] who recognized the same consciousness in the shaking of the bed shortly after her death? (A) This, as we see, has been correlated and given in an understandable manner to each. Keep these things - pondering them in the heart.
5. (Q) I read in "Light," (the magazine) of a spirit communication such as this and others had with my mother.
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The spirit entity explained that immediately at death clairvoyance is experienced, as we have seen in [3776] calling my mother's name and stating that my mother would guide her over. Then Light quoted the interview as saying every spirit entity is so received in the spirit plane as we have had in the case where I experience J. S. helping my mother over, or again where my mother guided [3776] over. Now, then, the article continued to quote the interview, stating that the spirit entity was severed from its flesh encasement the quicker and that the spirit entity then asleep or in the resting conscious state of transition is taken by the guides to a resting place. This might be indicated in the Master's saying in reply to those who said "He is dead" - "He sleepeth." Now is this all correct? (A) Correct.
6. (Q) Then the article said that the spirit entity awakens to recognize those, for the most part, he knew on earth, probably also others, and then is able to review, sort of like a moving picture, his whole earthly life and the retarding and progressions are seen. The former then, must just be overcome. Here the article ended. All correct? (A) Correct, in so far as each individual becomes able to supply and apply that needed. Dependent, then, upon the state of the entity's development at such a transition. For, as has been given, many are in the spirit plane many DAYS (as man counts time) without being able to be conscious of same, and seeking for assistance and aid only from that source that it, the entity, is conscious of in earth's plane. Hence such help or aid, as has been outlined, that may be given by individuals.
In those illustrations as have been used here, we find that the transition period of each [139 and 3776] was in a state of preparation for such transition much time before such took place, and that those near and dear to such ones were ready and willing to aid through those understandings or concepts relating to such transition as had already been gained by each - both one in transition, and one - ones - already translated, see?
7. (Q) In correlation with the lesson of the life after death my mother has given me and is giving me, explain this. (A) Only that explanation necessary that the entity apply same through self, for only in self may such explanations be made; for individuals are individuals, and are of own freewilled in all spheres, with that of its own making in each sphere, see?
8. (Q) [900] says: "All things, thoughts, deeds, actions,
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are set in Me, according to the application I make of that which is Me, Christlike or earthlike." Explain what he means to [900] and me? (A) In such an explanation there is found just that as has been given, that as a body is builded, so does it think. As a body thinks, so it builds, and so it is.
Now the explanation, then, becomes a cycle of one making the other, see? and the contact with the various conditions, and the application of the knowledge that is apparent in each entity's association with such, is its own application, and becomes individual. And in same thoughts become as deeds, or deeds are the father of thoughts and do not create in each individual the same reaction, for each has its own development, see? and is as may be used as this illustration, or illustrations:
In practice of music, with its own variations, this is as of the soul's inspiration towards the applying of that mechanically necessary to reproduce same on any instrument. And each individual, then, is as a law unto itself, in how it, the individual, is able to make same respond to its own condition. For the entity, or any entity, may find there are moods, and moods, and moods, even respecting applying self to the mechanical end of making music. Why? On account of thought, or condition, or of environmental forces in EVERY manner respecting that which is to be expressed.
In the same way and manner, then, are such conditions in thought, or in application OF thought to self, as respecting spiritual understanding, or of the earthbound understanding, see?
Or, as may be given in THIS as the illustration in same:
Each and every atom in the human body is a world in itself, and with the grand central forces of self in a perfect onement there is given every effort towards making perfection in every atom of the body. These becoming hindered by any influence, it either builds or breaks the will of that atomic force, an is as the same as may be applied in an individual life, raised to an Nth degree. See?
9. We are through for the present.