This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce in Columbus, Ohio, this 13th day of July, 1924, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Mohr, 499 Vermont Place, in accordance with request made by Mr. Edgar Cayce himself.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gladys Davis, Conductor and Steno. Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Mohr.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 10:00 A. M. Columbus, Ohio.
1. GD: [Questions dictated by EC beforehand] You will have before you the work of Edgar Cayce and answer the following questions.
2. (Q) How and by whom should the work be conducted? (A) Much of the manner and form as to how this should be conducted has been given, and no circumstances or conditions could change same. That is, in this: People are prone to find dissimilation, yet there must be some credence given, and when there is it will give and do that that will bring the better results to the efforts put forth. The work as conducted may be and should be conducted by anyone that has the ability to concentrate sufficient to keep the at-oneness of the results. As to the best, as given, the work would succeed best with the one now in charge [See 294-8, Par. 23 GD's footnote]. Others, under circumstances, are necessary that they be used, yet all times using discretion, for the physical must be kept fit, if we would have the manifestation of the spiritual forces in the earth plane.
3. (Q) What may be expected from the efforts of George S. Klingensmith in raising funds to promote the work? (A) As to that expectancy from the efforts of George S. Klingensmith, we will find there will much come of this. However, it will be longer with the changing than were the efforts confined to Dayton alone. In that attitude then should be taken into consideration, yet the work needs, as has been given, the publicity necessary that others may know of same and gain benefits thereby. We would say, give of the work in many places, in many places, and in the sixty days necessary for the change to come we will find we will be near to the correct place. The best way to do would be to go to the place where you expect to establish and begin and open the work there. That is, Norfolk, Old Point Comfort, and those cities close to where the work expects to be established. Advertise. Show what is meant. Give the understanding. Work to that end, beginning first in the places near.
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4. (Q) What is the attitude of Linden Shroyer toward the work and others connected with it? (A) As to the attitude to the work and others from Linden Shroyer, we find that is a personal condition and Shroyer feels that the other two [EC & GD?] have left him out of their closer understanding and union rather than his lack of interest in the work, and with the financial that has come in is detrimental to his further development, and it would be better that he had never known than to turn against. Forget not the injunction as given, "He having put his hand to the plow turn not back again". [Luke 9:62]
5. (Q) How should the work here in Columbus be conducted so as to be remunerative? (A) As to the work here in this place [Columbus], and how to conduct that, it may be remunerative. Would only be, let those understand that there is expected, for necessity, that due to those for the labors physically spent and that the necessity of the needs must be supplied by those desiring the help.
Better that there be someone else with these two [EC & GD?] than alone, for the attitude that some snobs take toward such relations, for it has often been given that relations with the opposite sex in psychic forces bring the carnal forces to that not understandable condition in other minds that are shut out to the higher, finer and enobling things of life, and who only see that which is of the earthly.
This then should be done in the manner that there may be no questioning in any manner or form, or as is given, present the body, the life, the work wholly unspotted from the world, avoiding even the appearance of evil. [Jas. 1:27; 1 Thes. 5:22] Let the two in their attitude, which is above reproach in their own lives and bodies, be circumspect in their actions in the presence of others, for they will be enjoined by such. [See 294-8 notations in re other readings indicat- ing close associations in the past between EC, GC, HLC and GD requiring their cooperative efforts in this life to make "the work" as efficient as it should be, saying "they are souls in the making" and "all souls are one".]
Follow these. Keep in the way, trust in Him. Better were these [activities] opened first from here, [as we see here], in Charleston, West Virginia, then in Roanoke, then in Norfolk, West Point, Old Point Comfort. Thus, we find, we would give and get the better results.
6. (Q) [Question added by Mr. Mohr] Would it be well for
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the work to be conducted in other cities under the supervision of Mr. Frank E. Mohr? (A) Very good. Anyone [with] whom there is no question of their sincerity and who is honest with self and those concerned.
Keep in that way that each may not make life in the physical a burden to the other, giving of self in physical, in spiritual, in all forces, for their union should be perfect in each and in Him. [GD's notes: In some of EC's earliest readings under his own Case number [294], he was admonished that his work would always be judged of others by his own spiritual life.]
7. We are through for the present.