This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 6th day of Oct., 1933, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [272], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis, L. B. Cayce and Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Teaching 6th Time of Reading grade, about 7 11:40 to 12:15 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. miles from ..., ..., Alabama. (Body and enquiring mind, who seeks and earnestly desires to get the proper slant on conditions in general and on her problem specifically, so that she may know how to pattern her life to carry on in the best way for herself, for Him whom she desires to serve, and for everything associated and connected. Questions.)
1. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, Mrs. [272].
2. In considering the problems that confront the body in the present, it will be well for the body (in analyzing the problems that confront the body) to review something of those conditions that have been the experience of the body in the mental, in the material and in the spiritual life.
3. That much that has arisen in the experience is to be met for the soul's development has clarified some of the whys and wherefores for the body; yet when viewed from the mental angle, the laws that govern cause and effect, the environs, that builded in the material experience is the result (from the materialist angle) of misdirection of the spiritual life, and the mental has builded that which has made these experiences for the body!
4. Hence we have arrived then to the present status, where there must be - for the betterment of the mental, the physical, the spiritual forces - a change, or some decision made that will be the guide, the signpost, for the mental and spiritual forces, that the material that is builded may be rather in keeping with that which brings peace, harmony, contentment, in such a manner as to make for an experience worth while.
5. Ready for questions.
6. (Q) Is it best for me to get a divorce? (A) As conditions exist, and as the moral and spiritual
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life are such as to be at such cross purposes in the experience, to return to those influences is to keep about self that which must eventually break the morale and the better decisions in the body-experience. Hence, as we find, for the general situation, it would be better for there to be the parting of the ways.
7. (Q) If so, shall I try to live here in my house or at some other place? (A) There are many conditions, both mental, moral and material, to be considered under such conditions. As we find, if it is possible to make the arrangements in such a manner as to be satisfactory to the experience of the body, in the determination set before self, we would change the whole atmosphere; leasing, selling or renting the place, and living elsewhere.
8. (Q) Is this partly the meaning of changing my name, as given in my Life Reading? (A) This, as given, was rather because of the vibrations from which the body should change self! Hence the material effects are the results; or leading to, or aiding, or helpful to the changes, see? Hence may be termed partially that condition, yes.
9. (Q) Does the part in my Life Reading concerning Venus deal with the question I am struggling with now? (A) Yes; deals with the question the body is struggling with now. For, as we have given in part, where the experience in the earth has been such as for the choice or will of the soul to manifest in the environ of Venus, that there might be the consummation in act per se of those influences in the material affairs of individuals, when reduced to that activity where all influences are of a conglomerate or heterogeneous mass in the mental and impulse and influence in flesh force, each must meet, each must understand, that experience! Hence, in some thoughts, this has been called karma.
10. (Q) Could my husband and I patch up our disagreements in order to live happily together that would make for both our soul development, or should we separate? (A) Separate. For, where there has come those influences that make for the continued nagging, or the continued activities that become repulsive to the body-consciousness and the activities of an
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individual in relationships with others, this is not for the welfare or the mental associations of ideas; but the repulsiveness of body-associations and relations becomes such as to make for destructive influences in the experiences of both. This may be easily understood by the body, [272].
11. (Q) How should love and the sexual life properly function? (A) This, to give even a summary dissertation, would require a great deal of time and space. In a few words, as we have indicated, the material things (or those in a three-dimensional world) are the shadow or the reflection of those in the spiritual life. Then, as God or the Creative Influence is the source of all things, the second law in spiritual life, in mental life, in material life, is preservation of self and the continuation of likes, or propagation, in sexual intercourse or life. Hence, in their very basic forces, the relations in sexual life should be the outcome - not the purpose of, but the outcome of the answering of soul to soul in their associations and relations. And the act, or the associations in this nature, should be the result. Hence these questions should be often weighed well, remembering that God, or Love (for it is One), looketh on the heart rather than the outward appearances. And that there having been set laws, by associations and relations in the material life (which are again shadows of the associations for which man in a material form was brought into being, to become a companion of the Father), and that morality, virtue, understanding, truth, love, are those influences that make for judgements of those that view the activities of individuals in the material life and judge according to those rules that govern such relationships, then it behooves - and becomes necessary - that there be the adherence to such regulations, that thy good be not evil-spoken of. For, in the understandings, know that Love and God are One; that relations in the sexual life are the manifestations in the mental attributes of each as to an expression of that that becomes manifested in the experience of each so concerned. For, unless such associations become on such a basis, they become vile in the experience of those that join in such
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relations.
12. (Q) There seems to be a standard of nature and one of man. Just how should they harmonize? (A) Not with man's, but rather with God's laws. One the outcome of the other. One the impulse of the other. Not the aggrandizing of the impulses that may be fired by material things, but that which is the outgrowth of the soul's expression in a material world, with the necessity of conforming to that which has been set by man as his judgement of his brother.
13. (Q) In the future, could I be happier with some other? and would it be better for all concerned? (A) That should be in the future, rather than in the present. For, walk this day, walk tomorrow, walk next week, circumspectly in thine own conscience; that the doors of light may be opened to thee, that there may come into thine experience those joys of the RIGHT association, that that which He would guide in such directions! And with the association of another, eventually there will come that which will bring harmony, joy, and a CONSTRUCTIVE life in such experience. Let the activities be in opening self in every fibre of the being that the Lord's way may be done IN and THROUGH thy thoughts and thy activities.
14. (Q) How can I know about love? (A) As one knows God and His associations with man (and this means woman [EC pronounced this wo-man]), so may one feeding upon the fruits of the spirit come to know that which is love.
15. (Q) What part may I have in the Work as presented by Edgar Cayce? (A) In presenting that thou hast gained through a knowledge and APPLICATION of the truths of same in thine own experience, to the understanding or to the attention of others, that THEIR understanding may be such that the truth in same may lighten the burdens in the material, the mental, and awaken the spiritual life to a greater activity.
16. (Q) How can I further prepare myself for this work? (A) Study to show self approved unto God, rightly DIVINING the words of truth, and keeping self unspotted from the world. How may one do this? That sounds beautiful, yet may to some become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. In seeking God's ways, God's understanding, through the way
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that has been shown by His Son in the earth. "He went about doing good" day by day. Not any great revelation, not in the fanfare of trumpet, not in segregating self from the world; but being in the world was not of the world, rather that the world THROUGH Him might know more of the Father's love for those in this material plane. Hence we, as His brothers and sisters, as His emissaries, as true children of Light, may do likewise day by day; a kindness shown here, a gentleness shown there, no harsh word to those that falter - rather give for such a constructive thought, that they, TOO, on the morrow may speak gently even to an erring son. Then, as ye grow in grace, using that thou knowest to do, there is given strength, hope, and peace. Such peace as the world, or the rabble, knoweth not, but that which even in the face of seeming disaster makes it possible that through tears there may come the shining light of His love, that ye may pass on to those that ye meet - yea, in the street, in the home, in the quietness of thine meditations, in the throng; and that every thought, every act, becomes a SONG in the heart and a joy in the service of being not just good but good in His name!
17. (Q) Where can I serve as a lawyer? (A) BEGIN where you are, and the way is opened; which, as we find, should soon come about; at least by the early spring or early summer of next year there will be shown the way.
18. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file