This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 14th day of December, 1925 in accordance with request made by self - Edgar Cayce.
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 115 West 35th Street, 4:20 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. Virginia Beach, Va.
1. GC: You will have before you the psychic work of Edgar Cayce, and all of those DIRECTLY and INDIRECTLY associated and INTERESTED in same, and you will answer any questions that may be asked you regarding any or all of these. Should there be any questions asked here that should not be asked, you will please tell us so, and why.
2. EC: Yes, we have the psychic phenomena as is manifested through Edgar Cayce. This we have had before, those that are interested directly and indirectly, and these are many, and there will be many more in the next few months. The ones directly interested in same and those directly associated with same should give out that information that would interest many more.
3. Ready for the questions.
4. (Q) It has often been given, in information from the psychic forces, (as manifested through Edgar Cayce) that at or near Virginia Beach, Va., was the place from which this phenomena should be propagated. Will you please tell us (since we are here), in an understandable manner to all present, WHY this is the place, and HOW the three DIRECTLY associated with same should conduct themselves, physically, in respect to same. (A) There has been given as to why Virginia Beach, or near same, would be the best place to propagate the work from. That those present may better understand, we would then give same in this manner, for in same there is seen the action, physically also, of each that are directly associated with the phenomena as same operates, or the modus operandi of the action of the phenomena, see? The surrounding country is in that vibration as is a best predicated condition for the operation of psychic forces as may be manifested through this entity, from associations in the earth's plane and desires as are manifested through earthly forces, see? This applies as well to some of those associated with the work as to the individual through whom the operations are projected, see? The conditions that surround the place, Virginia Beach; not in its present season perhaps, as to the open knowledge
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of the individuals as are seen operating in this, but in the whole, and in the development of those conditions necessary for the establishment of an institution, are such that through same the phenomenas might receive their greater force and expansion. The nearness to the various ones directly interested in the propagation of the phenomena, see? The nearness (at another season than present) to the nation's and world's capital, that through same many channels of the thinking peoples who study such phenomena may have direct access to the phenomena, in a direct contactable manner, far from the real commercial influence of trade, that is of earthly commercial valuations. Near to sea, near to sands, near to many conditions that supply the greater forces for the easier accessibility of forces to phenomenize or materialize into the way and manner as may be more acceptable to the student, to the philosopher, to the theologian, to any of the cult, cism or ism, that might desire to study phenomena from the scientific [angle], or from ANY of the phases of the phenomena itself.
As to, then, the conduct of those individuals associated with same, as this:
First, (this applying to all) in that manner, first, as will be wholly acceptable unto Him, the Giver of all good and perfect gifts, as near as lies within the efforts of the physical bodies.
In the individual instances, as this:
For Edgar Cayce: Walk circumspectly before all men. Honest with self, with family, with associates, and let such honesty be the basis of all communications, with each and every individual, whether by word of mouth, by letter, by any accessible way of information being obtained or given from such forces - walk in that way, see. Ever remembering that the spirit of truth judgeth all things, and that man's conception of a truth is judged by the physical attributes or results from that attempted, in a material, in a moral, in a financial way and manner.
As to the director [Gertrude Cayce, Conductor]: in that way and manner that gives no false conception of the place occupied by the Director, or Interrogator, or in any way and manner that would divert any channel of assistance to any individual that would gain a better knowledge of the truth and Holy One, that may be phenomenized through the spirit of
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love, in the accessibility of truth as gained through such forces. In a way and manner that brings the greater respect of any who may contact such forces through the individuals themselves, see? for as is seen, each must be the truth, one toward another. [See Work:EC:Readings:Conduction. See 195-31, 6/8/26.]
As to the one that would give the message, as is taken [Gladys Davis, Steno.]: in earnest, in lowness [lowliness] of spirit, in the way and manner knowing that the dependent one is in that obtained, see? for in the correct manner of presentation may be often altered by the manner presented in type, see? and that too-sureness in self is often nearer in a way that does not give of the best in the projection of truths obtained, see? In the way, then, that keeps the better understanding of the truths as are presented; not of individual, but of the truth itself, see? [See Work:EC:Readings:Stenographer.]
Then as the combination again, these co-related in their efforts, in all then we find as these: As a unit, then, of strength. Let not there be brotherly strife (or SISTERLY strife as would say in this case) in any way or manner, for in same there comes that not wholly circumspect in presentation of the best that lies in either.
5. We are through for the present.