This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 31st day of August, 1935, in accordance with request made by the 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. L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 11:00 to 11:45 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Alabama. (Entity, who seeks that needed at this time to enable her to reach the Christ Consciousness. You will answer the questions she has submitted, as I ask them.)
1. EC: Yes, we have the enquiring mind, [272]; those desires, those abilities, those weaknesses, those strengths that are as a portion of the entity at the present time.
2. In seeking that which may be helpful to the body-mind and body-consciousness in the present, well that the entity review in part much that has been given and that has been learned by the body.
3. The man, the body, and the manifestations of the flesh are as but a channel, a manner, a means through which the soul may through its activities manifest the attributes of the spirit of truth. Man finds himself in that state where he is subject to the faults, the failures, those conditions that work upon the weaknesses wherein he has failed. And, as an individual finds, these work through environmental and hereditary influences, also through associations. Yet there is ever the awareness in the experiences of those who seek, that the Father, the God, the Creative Force, has prepared - has given man, the individual - the way of escape from those things that so easily beset. That the activities must become the voluntary choice of the entity, the soul, has been shown, manifested, given in the manner in which the Christ Consciousness in the earth was manifested through the lowly Nazarene; that came in order that man - through His example, His love, His patience, His hope manifested, through the attributes of the Spirit that He exemplified in His activity both as to word and as to precept - might choose, as He, to do that which is right, that which is just, that which is sincere, that which is honest in the activities one with another. And as He has given, "As ye do it unto the least of thy brethren, ye do it unto me."
4. Also He has given, as the Father's promise has been to Him and to man through those various channels of approach,
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"Ye abiding in me and I in the Father, ye may know that consciousness that I and the Father abide in thee." That is the manner in which the individual, the soul, may at THIS time become more and more aware of the Christ Consciousness, that manifested by and through the man Jesus, that is the promise and the sureness as shown in Him from the Father unto thee.
5. The way is simple. Yet those who would seek through the mysteries of nature, the mysteries of the manifestations of life in the earth, or those who would see rather the activities of their neighbors, friends, associates day by day, than listen to that which may be had through the still small voice from within, become in the position of being troubled and wondering - and then fearful; and then there come those periods when the sureness of self is lacking.
6. All things having force or power in the earth, in the heavens, in the sea, are given that power from Him; that those who seek may know Him the better. He hath not willed, He hath not destined that any soul should perish. In patience, in persistency, in consistency of thy manifestations of His love before and to and of thy fellow man, ye become aware that thy soul is a portion of the Creator, that it is the gift of the Father TO THEE. This is manifested in thine daily experience. That portion of thy body which is of the earth-earthy remains with the earth, but that thou hast glorified, that thou hast used as a channel for the manifestations of His Spirit - of thy soul in communion with Him, THAT body will be raised with Him in righteousness. That the physical body becomes ensnared, entangled in those things in the earth, through the gratifying of those desires that are fleshly alone, those that are carnal, is manifested by the dis-ease, the corruption, the turmoil, the strife that arises within the experience of each soul in its THOUGHTFUL activities in the earth.
7. The soul, then, must return - WILL return - to its Maker. It is a portion of the Creative Force, which is energized into activity even in materiality, in the flesh. Yet it may, with thine own understanding and thine own manifestations, come to be as a portion of that thou bringest in thy love into thy fellow man, for thy Father-God, for thy activity to be ONE with Him in those realms of activity and experience that ye ARE aware of His presence, of His abiding love, of His abiding faith IN thee motivating thee in thy activities in every direction.
8. Then, just being kind, just being patient, just showing love for thy fellow man; THAT is the manner in which an
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individual works AT becoming aware of the consciousness of the Christ Spirit.
9. He hath given that where the treasure is, where the heart is, THERE doth the soul make manifest the greater glorious activities that make for the growth through the mind, the body; the soul becomes aware of that sphere of activity, that growth whereunto there has become the experience of His abiding presence ever.
10. In a material expression - as thou hast seen in thine own activities among thine counsels, among thine helps to those that seek the material things of life - how, when and in what way does an individual become aware of the laws pertaining to the construction of a sentence in English? How, where, when, in what manner does an individual learn the rule of spelling a word? By the meditating upon same, by seeing, visualizing, acting. And then the AWARENESS of same is manifested by the manner in which the individual puts same into practice in conjunction or association with its fellow man. The knowledge may be existent, the awareness in self may be present; but if the individual does not apply same in its associations - or if it uses some other manner, some other way of expression than that it has set as the rule or the standard - it becomes of none effect.
11. What are the rules, then? As has just been outlined, ye may become aware of His presence abiding with thee. When ye manifest love, patience, hope, charity, tolerance, faith; these be the manners. Not in thine own SELF! These as words, these as expressions, these as visualized OBJECTS may be within thine self. But when ye as a soul, as an entity, as an individual, make such manifest to those ye meet casually, to those that ye contact day by day - in conversation, in example, in precept; these the attributes of the Spirit - ye become aware of that Consciousness, of that Christ Spirit, of that Christ Consciousness as He gave, "Ye abiding in me and I in the Father, WE - the Father, I will COME and abide with thee."
12. When the Spirit of the Father, when the activities that the Christ - the man - gave to the sons of men - are made manifest in thine own life day by day, then ye become aware of His presence abiding in thee.
13. KNOW the Truth, for the truth is as He gave; the truth is He, and His words. For He hath given, "Though the heavens and the earth may pass away, MY words, my promise, shall NOT pass away."
14. Let not, then, the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, the pomp and glory of the earthly nature, or fame
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or even to be well-spoken of, hinder thee from APPLYING in thy relationships with thy fellow man that thou KNOWEST to be the manner in which ye may become aware of His presence.
15. That offenses must come is true. But woe to him that bringeth same to pass!
16. Then, be not idle in that ye know; rather let it be an ACTIVE, POSITIVE influence in the experience of all. Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil, cleave to that which is good.
17. In THIS way may YE know, may YE be aware of His presence within thee.
18. Just as thou hast seen in thine own body that which has brought the fires of nature, the turmoils of dis-ease, the wonderments even of distress. Yet ye have seen those influences, those powers in nature that are manifestations of His love to man, so that - when ye have fallen away, and into those things that BRING such hindrances in thine life and thine experience - the WAY is prepared. WHOSE way? Who hath prepared the Way? Man in ANY phase of his experience is but the channel to make application, or to give that which may be a helpful understanding; he is but being used as a channel. Even as THOU may be, to make for the awareness in the experiences of others of His abiding presence being in and with thee!
19. Ready for questions.
20. (Q) May the vibrations of my body be raised to that which will bring purity and a normal functioning of all its organs? (A) Apply in their regular order, in decency and in order, in love and in patience, those things that have been given thee as to the manner of expression; cleansing thine body in the ways and manners as thou hast seen, as thou hast known, as thou may comprehend more and more, would make thee as one set apart, as one dedicating its abilities of every nature to the service of the fellow man. Thus may that service bring to thee the awareness of HIS force, HIS power, working in and through thy body. THUS may the vibrations be raised; THUS may thy body be cleansed; thus may thy mind have the greater channel, the greater ways and means of manifesting that thou wouldst show forth in thine activities for thine greater, thine better understanding.
21. (Q) Please give that which will be of help in my present development to attain the Christ Consciousness. (A) Applying that - APPLYING that - which has been so oft given. Let love direct thee, with little thought of self; rather with the attitude that the Christ Love, the Christ Consciousness may be made manifest day by day.
22. (Q) May I sit at the Master's feet and learn of Him?
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(A) Learn by applying His precepts, His life, in thine OWN relationship with thy fellow man. How gave He when he was called and told that his mother and brethren waited without? "Who is my mother? Who is my brother, my sister? He that doeth the will of my Father." What is the will? "Love the Lord thy God with all thine mind, thy body, thy soul, and thy neighbor as thyself." Who is thy neighbor? He that seeks to know more and more of the love of the Father through the Son. Who is the Son? He that doeth the will of the Father, in WHATEVER sphere of activity that may be.
23. (Q) How could I improve my meditations? (A) By being, as given, more and more patient, more and more longsuffering, more and more tolerant, more and more LOVELY to everyone ye meet in EVERY way ye act, in every word ye SPEAK, in every thought ye think.
24. (Q) Is it best that I marry again and may it be a spiritual marriage? (A) When there is the answer of the soul TO another, THEN ye may seek, then ye may know, then ye may ask even of the Father and be MADE aware OF that ye should do under such circumstance. For the individual, the soul, may so live that the acts of the body, the thoughts of the mind, may be one with Him. Let thy light so shine that others seeing thy light, thy life, may take hope. Be patient; be persistent; be consistent in what ye do, in what ye say.
25. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file Extracts to Miss Wynne for lesson on DESTINY