This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 6th day of April, 1929, in accordance with request made by self, through his brother [900].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce, Thos. B. Brown, David E. Kahn.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:30 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. (Dream Suggestion)
1. GC: ([137]'s dream) "I beheld the hospital and a beautiful university at Virginia Beach. [900] was established as a professor therein and I was an associate professor, lecturing on numerology. The institution grew and the Board of Ass'n of Nat'l Investigators grew to be a respected and powerful factor in its field of learning and education. The latter years of our life came and with it peace and satisfaction. Then came one eventful meeting of the board. I stood up and addressed the numbers thereof in a rather inspirational manner. In conclusion I said: 'Gentlemen, this is the last meeting that I shall be with you. My time has come. I am about to die'. (It seemed I knew just the time I would die). I admonished them to uphold the standards and ideals we had set. Upon this solicitation over my impending death, I told them I had no fear and was ready and willing to go. [14O], my wife, had preceded me in death.
"Thereafter I died at the time given me and I beheld myself in spirit still attached to my beloved work in Virginia Beach. In a few short generations or during this period there came those into the work who exploited its institutions for money-making and under a hypocritical purport of good sought material gain. They sought to use the institution to gain power and wealth for themselves under the guise of an advertised purpose to do good. The work degenerated. To resurrect it and renew its old standards I again returned to the earth plane, into the flesh condition of man. I entered as the son of parentage living right in Virginia Beach. [14O], my present wife, seemed with me to earth, staying near me. In that lifetime I again worked to enlighten the human mind and raise their ideals through and in the Virginia Beach institution. I seemed to succeed. Again the board of the Association and again the latter years of that experience. Again I addressed the board for the last time saying: 'Twice before have I
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come into the world to give to the world a great message. Once before in connection with this very institution, after which you deserted its standards, ideals and purpose for a purely material purpose of material gain. Now again have I returned and served that the institution may be restored to serve its higher purpose for which I, as one of its founders, originally established it. Behold, now, will you not heed that purpose, and again turn from the ideals and practices consistent with that purpose and purport, I WILL NOT AGAIN SHOW MY FACE AMONG MEN ON EARTH AND YE - MAN - SHALL BE THE SUFFERER. HEED NOW THAT WHICH I ESTABLISH BEFORE YOU AND WHICH TWICE BEFORE I GAVE INTO THE WORLD TO HEED, OR TAKE THE CONSEQUENCES, FOR I RETURNED THIS TIME TO SAVE YOU THESE CONSEQUENCES. I WILL NOT RETURN AGAIN!'"
2. EC: Now, we have the body, the mind of the body of [137] as respecting those visions innately experienced through those of the presented self as was guided by the paternal father in the experience in the earth's plane as Jude. The entity in this experience is able to see self in the light of how the development of self in a physical, mental manner, may be guided even in the ways as the sincerity of self in promise to those that would aid in alleviating pain, giving the understanding to those that seek, making the paths straight for those that err unwittingly, and directing the feet of those that seek light in this mundane sphere of experience - and as the self visions the experience, the GROWTH in an idea and IDEAL is seen even as in the days when Jude - as the younger brother - felt that this was but a questioning of fates as drew people to an idea of an ideal life, an ideal experience; yet fostering same there is experienced in the heart and mind of the man, as the years go by - and as the individual cries out, in how that there is left no way in which man may find access to the knowledge of the Creative Energy, of God, save through Him who had given Himself in no UNCERTAIN way and the path is made straight for those that seek the light through the expressing in self's earthly experience those of - not dejection in self, not making self of the way of those that would bring physical pain for the mere presenting to a peoples a phase of persecution in self - but rather that those that do such become as clouds without water, that only cast a shadow - and it does no man good, either in the way of reflection or in the experiences of a material life; but only in the LIVING OF the ideal, only in the practising of that preached - on the belief in the oneness of self with that whole universal force - and in the application of self in same may one gain the full understanding; and, as is
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still visioned, the entity becomes in the practice of same even as "my son Jude" did. So may "David" [GD's note: David was [137]'s middle name in this life, which EC said it would be well to call him.] in this present experience become the interpreter, the director, in the field of the prophecy and the prophet to "mine peoples," and to those and to Him who teaches Israel in the ways that go down by the sea - and in directing these, even self may choose - even as the brother in that experience brought self again into a material world to still magnify that name - that name - that becomes on every tongue that of the CRUCIFIED one in the manner that self is crucified to the fleshly desires, that the spirit of man be not proud - but rather preferring the spirit of the Holy One before self, and considering the neighbor as thine self.
3. Then, in the manner as experienced may the entity - may the body present self, so conduct, so guide, so direct others as to bring MANY an one to a more perfect understanding - and may the work of the hands be blessed in thy EARTHLY days, even as thou wilt be and hast been blessed through the understanding that may be delivered from thine own directing force - thine father, even the carpenter, who brought through those trying days of the dwellings in the holy land - thine own understanding to the minds, the hearts, of a waiting people.
4. Then, bind up thine feet - My Son, keep thine ways aright, knowing there is the advocate with the Father, even as thy own self had before the foundations of the earth were laid - and as the foundation of that school may be laid in the efforts of thine own hand as a material witness of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual attributes of those that gather under thine guiding hand, so keep the ways, the feet, the hands of those that direct same, and when thou art called into account of those deeds done IN the body, blessed will be those that come under the directing of thine endeavors! Keep - Keep - the faith - the promise in thine self, that WE - in THIS plane - may keep in thee the guiding light to many a soul seeking the way. Ready - Ready - Let's Go!
5. (Q) Will [900] and I be established in the university as predicted in the prophecy? (A) Will self keep that as is committed unto thy keeping, then the promises are sure in David - and in THINE efforts will much good come to mine people, and as the prophets - which the self understood, as the recorder for Ezekiel - so will those records made by self in THAT institution become a light to the world in understanding of what is written in
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Gezer(?). [Gizeh?]
6. (Q) Will my wife precede me in death and will I be able to foretell my own death as given in the prophecy? (A) Even as thine earthly brother gave, "I go up to be bound of those that know not what they do" - even so will self be able to know within self that which is to take place in material planes. Be not overcome by much knowledge. Be not overdone nor undone by that as may be given. Remember, mine son, that thou saidst of him who DID wage war - even with Him - concerning the body of Moses, whom thou may even direct - that though he recognized his power, yet railed he not - but said, "God will deal with thee." Not of thine OWN power may these forces be done - but flesh and blood may manifest a spiritual truth, but may not ORDER a spirit in ANY direction! Aid and succor may come THROUGH flesh and blood, even to those near the pit - yet there is fixed that impassable gulf, and he that makes his will one WITH the FATHER may be committed a care through His direction. Keep that as is given, my son, and err not in well-doing; for oft, as has been said, those that call upon the forces only in distress may be heard from afar. Keep thine self CLOSE, that those that would direct may be ever near thee - for the stumbling block ALWAYS lies in self-aggrandizement of power and ability stored in one's own self, in the misuse of self in relation one to another. Keep the faith, My Son - Keep the faith -
7. We are through.
Copy to [900] " " [137] " " Thos. B. Brown " " David E. Kahn " " Hugh Lynn Cayce