This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce in Hopkinsville, Ky., this 13th day of February, 1911, on the work of Edgar Cayce.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; L. B. Cayce, Conductor; Katherine Faxon, Steno. [Katherine Faxon was one of the earliest stenos; she, and some of the others, usually signed as the steno.]
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:15 P. M. Hopkinsville, Ky.
1. LBC: You have before you Edgar Cayce, Jr., self.
2. EC: Edgar Cayce, Jr.? [EC was named for his uncle Edgar, Mr. LBC's older brother, who was still living at this time.] Yes, we have had him here before.
3. LBC: [Continuing the Suggestion:] Now he, in his subconscious mind, has wonderful powers. We are about to enter into a great business and professional enterprise, and if he is properly managed, will make a success for himself and others associated with him. We want you to outline a mode of procedure that will be successful. We want you to tell us how to organize.
4. EC: [In undertone], repeating the suggestion: We organize for a great business; we have it, a business, from different standpoints. We have a difference from the capabilities of his work; we have it from the power of the work. We can follow it from one field, or the other field. We can take it from the material, from the spiritual, or we can take it from the ethereal [etheric?]. It can be treated from either. We have it from either point, but we cannot mix the points. Same as we have in the body, physical, mental and abnormal or spiritual self. We have the use of all in the physical body, same as we have the use of all in the material world.
5. We organize a business venture.
6. (Q) Where should we locate? (A) We have in the body now, a mind, a physical body, and the mental self of Edgar Cayce, Jr., as we have it here in the material world. We have now its relations between the material world, or business world, and its relations between the mental or spiritual world; the mental self, the action from other bodies of the same material world. We have the action of consequent control through the ethereal [etheric?] world. We have an organization of the materialistic through bodies outside, controlling the portions or workings through the business of the works done by this ethereal [etheric?] body [GD's note: All bracketed inserts are mine. In later
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years, EC referred to the etheric body which lay suspended above his physical body during the readings.] here of Edgar Cayce. We have into the world all bodies subject to ethereal control. We have all bodies subject to (that is, the abnormal mind, now) ethereal control. Subject to the will of the mental self of the individual man. The development of each individual has this in itself. The condition that we have [Edgar Cayce?] to help the individual bodies are through their individual self, assisted by material objects obtained into the mental mind of the material man. We have this body here, this mind, this matter, that we have here, of Edgar Cayce, Jr., through the ethereal world, as it gathers from the force given out either from the present, the past, and given back to the material man through the subconscious self, acting in the material body by the control to which it is in a state of coma. The control of the subject of self first [Edgar Cayce?] is to be gained and kept under control - the best control of the body in itself. We have first the direction to the body wherein we have communication, or communion with the control we have gained to the ethereal [etheric?] world; that is, outside, the minds of all matter. It is the mental capacity of all matter. All mental man, through the control by suggestion to the mental, or the invisible action of matter on the mind in the individual self [of Edgar Cayce?], or the organism of the system wherein the man is made. The development of each is to be gained by its control, which is gained by its material work shown to the material man. That is, we have here man (that is, humanity) by nature handed down from one body to the other, who looks for material, or acts on the physical self. And action gained from the ethereal [etheric?], or mental, without its production through the material has no effect on the man. The place where we use these, for this, is anywhere, so we have it fixed for use to develop or show to the mental- physical man the structure of things gained through the channel where we have contact here with the material world; and the means whereby these can be gained is the ones who see personal gain to self.
7. (Q) Where and how should we obtain the necessary money for this business?
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(A) That depends on the place and business we have had here before. Now, we have a business here within this body. We have the materialistic, we have the physical and we have the mental.
8. (Q) We want the business of diagnosing the physical condition of bodies. (A) [EC repeating the suggestion?] Physical condition of bodies. Diagnosing the mental condition, physical condition, the abnormal condition of other bodies. The physical body, acted on by physical means, material means, for physical benefits for individual bodies. The action of material things to individual bodies, claiming to the individual body, of throughness of the material thing in itself. Whereby, or how, shall we gain the material means for the futherance of the ethereal project here?
9. (Q) Well, tell us where and by what means to get this money. (A) Only whereby they receive personal gain, or physical gain, gain for the material man or body in the outside world - as we have it here at present. Where we have established in itself, whereby it is shown to the material world the workings of the ethereal body, do we establish credence with the material. Thereby we gain credence of the material world and they give of their means for personal gain. As we give credence to these, and it is shown by its material gain through the mental, physical man, or to the material man, he will give of his means for the maintenance of the concourse* through the ethereal man and physical man. * [CON'COURSE (kon'kors; kong'-;70), n. [F.CONCOURS, tr.L. CONCURSUS,fr.CONCURRERE to run together.] 1. A flocking together, as of people; any moving, flowing, or running together. 2. An assemblage; gathering. 3. An open space where several roads or paths meet, as in a park; an open space or hall where crowds may gather. 4. OBS. Concurrence; cooperation.]
10. (Q) How shall the professional side be arranged and managed so as to obtain the greatest success? (A) By doing these things, giving to the material man from the ethereal world here. Here, you see we have communication from all of these, from before. We have communication from all these present, and from the physical bodies. The physical condition of a body is the condition existing in that body at the present. If we have a body suffering from a mental state, from a physical state or from an abnormal condition of all combined together, it given from the ethereal state by that condition whereby we show to the mental man outside, or the material man, whereby we gain
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credence from these; whereby we are able to show ourselves to the man here. And the closer we are followed here with these the stronger we become, because we become more thorough, you see in our works; we show more strongly to the material man the workings of the ethereal world. As we gain more control to these we gain more to the abnormal or subconscious mind of man, to give credence to these conditions that exist in all bodies. Whereby we gain these controls is got by how these are to be given out to individual selves, as we have now, here. This body [Edgar Cayce, Jr.?], which has become racked with pain, you see, from the physical condition of the man - if we give this then to the material man, as through this agent here, we rid this body of this pain. [Was advice given to EC here, which the steno typed separately, of which we have no copy, or was "This body" simply used as a hypothetical case to illustrate the point?] The material man becomes conscious of this body because we have had material good to the man. We answer both to his inner conscience and to the physical man, and to the outside world, whereby we gain credence, whereby the material that has been used into this man, or that has used these agencies for this man here, gains credence. And the minute we gain credence and give credit to ourselves we lose it all.