TEXT OF READING 262-16

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of Misses Florence and Edith Edmonds, 611 Pennsylvania Ave., Norfolk, Virginia, this 4th day of April, 1932, in accordance with request made by those present.

P R E S E N T

Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Minnie and C. A. Barrett, Esther Wynne, Hannah Miller, Florence and Edith Edmonds, M. L. Black, F. Y. Morrow, H. L. Cayce, Mildred Davis, Helen Storey, Helen Ellington and Ruth LeNoir.

R E A D I N G

Time of Reading 9:40 P. M.

1. GC: (Dream Suggestion) Dream of Edgar Cayce Sunday, 2/21/32, in which he went everywhere, in every imaginable vehicle, and presented a box to a member of the group at each place.

2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, Edgar Cayce present in this room, the dream, or vision and experience of the entity, as in the visit and travel to various portions of the country, and the meeting and presenting to the various members of the group the message.

3. In this there is seen not only the individuality of each person or member of the group, but also the one message as is being builded in the experience of all. Also there is seen the various portions of the country to which, in which, the appeal of the individual contribution to those of the lessons will receive their import.

4. As these, then, are gathered, there will be seen that the day will come when each as seen may in that particular region seen present that message as is being builded in each in the present.

5. As to the individuality as manifested by the manner in which each are approached, this rather the lesson that as in the form of bringing the message to those of the groups seen in the various modes or manners of traveling to each, see?

6. Ready for questions.

7. (Q) What is the one message developed and given? (A) That of the compilations of the studies, as indicated by the asking of each, "Have you the little box or package?", showing the compilation of those truths as will be presented in the various portions of country as seen.

8. (Q) In what particular portion of the country was [69], and what is the message? (A) In the middle west, or in Denver, as was seen. There the aid may be the greater as presented by the body. The

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message, that as compiled by all seen.

9. (Q) [307]: (A) Was in that of Cleveland, or that portion of the country, and in the presentation as of studying, or as presenting in the logic of same.

10. (Q) [993]: (A) In the southland, or New Orleans, as seen, and among such groups may the body present the greater message.

11. (Q) [560]: (A) In Kentucky and Tennessee, that portion where the studies of same have been for many the day as those of the ORTHODOX forces, or church ritualistic forces. These will be hard; but truth prevails!

12. (Q) [404]: (A) These presented in the eastern portion and northern portion of the country, as of southern New England, among those especially of the spiritual faith.

13. (Q) [413]: (A) These were in the eastern portion of the south, and in that of southern Georgia and Florida, but as in the peach orchard section.

14. (Q) [341]: (A) These presented more in the far west.

15. (Q) [295]: (A) In the southwest, or San Antonio and that portion of the country, and among those of the particular sect or sets of people.

16. (Q) [303]: (A) These were in the Carolinas, and especially that portion about those of the student body, or peoples.

17. (Q) [585]: (A) This was seen in those of the valley country of West Virginia, or the northwestern portion of that part of the country, and as the travel indicated there, in that that pertained most to the waterways.

18. (Q) [379]: (A) These were in Oklahoma, and those portions of southern part of Missouri, or - as what would be called - in the Ozark portion of the country.

19. (Q) [115]: (A) Among those of the southwestern portion, and especially of that as pertained to those of the cult natures.

20. (Q) Mrs. [69]'s husband: (A) Those of the harder headed portions, in the north and northwestern portions of Texas.

21. (Q) [288]: (A) In that portion of the northeastern portion of the

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country, as in the vinelands of New York.

22. (Q) [2112]: (A) In Indiana and Illinois, or as to that portion in which there is seen those of a peculiar peoples, as termed by many. Most of them holding to that of folklore, or of the Zionists.

23. (Q) [2125]: (A) Among the peoples at home!

24. (Q) [2124]: (A) In that portion of the southwest, as in Arizona and New Mexico, especially in that portion among the miner and the rodeo peoples.

25. (Q) [2673]: (A) She in that portion now called the far northwest, as in Oregon, Washington, and that portion of the land. Well that these be understood, that that portion of the lessons as are compiled in the whole will be most APPEALING to that section from these of the group seen.

26. We are through.