This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 105th St. & Ocean, Va. Beach, Va., this 25th day of Jan. 1932, in accordance with request made by self - Edgar Cayce, and those closely associated with him.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis, Hugh Lynn and L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 3:15 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Va. (Dream Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [294], present in this room - this we have had before. The dreams or visions, or both, as they are presented, represent either some development or warning, that there may be the better understanding of the various conditions and the activities that are active with the efforts of the body, in the attempt to bring to others that concept which will make for developments of individuals along the varied lines of expressions of the individuals, or the body itself. Ready for dreams.
2. (Q) [GC read dream had Jan. 15, 1932 during reading 3985-1]: Saw myself fixing to give a reading, and the process through which a reading was gotten. Someone described it to me. There was a center or spot from which, on going into the state, I would radiate upward. It began as a spiral, except there were rings all around - commencing very small, and as they went on up they got bigger and bigger. The spaces in between the rings were the various places of development which individuals had attained, from which I would attempt to gain information. That was why a very low developed body might be so low that no one even giving information would be able to give anything that would be worth while. There were certain portions of the country that produced their own radiation; for instance, it would be very much easier to give a reading for an individual who was in the radiation that had to do with health, or healing; not necessarily in a hospital, but in a healing radiation - than it would be for an individual who was in purely a commercial radiation. I might be able to give a much better reading (as the illustration was made) for a person in Rochester, N. Y., than one in Chicago, Ill., because the vibrations of Rochester were very much higher than the vibrations in Chicago. The closer the individual was to one of the rings, the easier it would be to get the information. An individual would, from any point in between, by their own
294-131 Page 2
desire go toward the ring. If just curious, they would naturally draw down towards the center away from the ring, or in the spaces between the rings. [See also 1/33 EC's repeated dream, since mid 20's of being tiny dot seeking light, under 294-19 Reports.] (A) This vision is recognizable as an experience of the soul, or the ENTITY, in activity. There have been various formulas or descriptions of how information for a body was obtained through these channels. There has been promised, through these channels, that there was to be a greater awakening to this entity in its field of endeavor. So in this way there is, as indicated, a way of the information being better correlated, better understood by individuals - who are through that as may be termed the attunements of the various directions, in the various portions of the country or world - of their relationship to the actual fact of seeking through the channels. [See 262-16.] As indicated, the entity is - in the affairs of the world - a tiny speck, as it were, a mere grain of sand; yet when raised in the atmosphere or realm of the spiritual forces it becomes all inclusive, as is seen by the size of the funnel - which reaches not downward, nor outward, nor over, but direct to that which is felt by the experience of man as into the heavens itself. As indicated in the rings, or the nets as of nerves, each portion of the sphere, or the earth, or the heavens, is in that place which has been set by an All Wise Creative Energy. Each may attain to those relationships by that which is attempted in the activities of an individual, a group, a class, a mass, a nation. In that manner do they create their position in the affairs of the universe. Each speck, as an atom of human experience, is connected one with another as the continuity of the cone seen, and in the manner that the nerves of an animating or living object bears upon that in its specific center, but reaches to the utmost portions of the universality of force or activity in the whole universe, and has its radial effect upon one another. As the entity, then, raises itself through those activities of subjugating or making as null those physical activities of the body, using only - as it were (in the cone) - the trumpet of the universe, in reaching out for that being sought, each entity - or each dot, then - in its respective sphere - acts as the note or the lute in action, that VOICES that which may come forth from such seeking. Then we find, in the classification, in the activity of those that correlate such information, those in the various
294-131 Page 3
spheres will naturally classify themselves - even as given in the illustration, that there will more often be the sound of help to those in Rochester than to those in Chicago. That only as an illustration. Not that there may not be as much healing to those from the one as the other, but the effect upon the individual in the environ makes for the tone which resounds from that received. See? This should, then, be a helpful illustration to those correlating in understanding and classifying the information that may be received. This should, to the body giving information, make known to him that there is being OPENED an access to the Thrones themselves! See? [See 262-16; 1/33 See 294-131, Par. R3, HLC's paper, How Edgar Cayce Gives a Psychic Reading, using above 2-Q & 2-A.]
3. (Q) (Reading dream) Sunday morning, Jan. 24, 1932. I was driving a car without a steering wheel - right drive instead of left. Someone told me I needed a new saddle instead of a steering wheel. (A) In this there is presented that that makes for the reactions being had upon individuals who are becoming, or have been, interested in the class or kind of information. As: There is growing (even in this materialistic experience) the more and more recognition that the information needs to be ridden in a channel that is more direct than one that cannot be governed without the proper steering. As indicated, there is that tendency in the materialistic information to run those who seek only for material things to a destructive force, yet they may aid many an individual over a rough place. They may dodge (as in vision) many of the pitfalls or obstructions that are in their way, yet continual riding in such an attitude or atmosphere, or manner, as indicated, is as driving without the proper ability to steer aright the possibilities, the many conditions that would arise from such activities. While if they are in a position of easy riding from the new saddle, that comes with that of the new commandment (as seen in the straps that were necessary for the guidance in the use of the new saddle to be prepared, or given), the love of the Father, the love for the neighbor, will lead into paths of righteousness, rather than to those hills or descents, or obstructions of attempting to guide without the proper steering into the seas of disorder, discontent. An emblematical vision, and worthy of being studied by those that have any part in the giving or distributing any of such information as may be sought OR given to another. Be not in the position of sending one away blindly without that to steer with. Rather give them that buckle of hope as may
294-131 Page 4
come from the knowledge, that "The way ye know, the HOPE ye know," for in Him is the light, and the understanding may come with a one purpose, as "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto thee." Give rather that injunction "WHY take thought of what ye shall eat, or wherewithal ye shall be clothed? Know ye not that thine Father knowest ye have need of all these things?" Rather study to show thyself approved unto Him, for - as He has given oft, "The silver and the gold is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills." Dare to do right! DARE to be the IMPULSE for someone to be guided in a better knowledge of Him. DARE to be the impulse of RIGHT, rather than a CAR FULL of destructive forces!
4. (Q) (Reading dream) Same date, [Sun a.m., 1/24/32]. Saw a Chinese girl with her head on backwards. (A) As indicated in this emblematical vision (of which only a portion is given here), the body represents rather that body that has so long sought an understanding in claims for beliefs, and who approaches such in a backward or obtuse manner; that is, as seen, there must be a washing of regeneration in all, that would ye FILL your minds with that that may come from the Right ye would FACE ABOUT, rather than backing INTO that that may bring aid. See?
5. (Q) Does that mean one approaching or seeking information? (A) One approaching or seeking information. That there be given such the way, that their own preconceived ideas, now, be laid aside until there is shown that that may be taken hold of as a way of understanding.
6. (Q) (Reading dream) Mon. morning, Jan. 25, 1932, while giving reading for Mrs. [2741-1, Life rdg.]: There was a great host of people going out to dedicate a tomb, that was being builded or prepared for someone, and they had seven days of entertainment with all sorts of dancing, prayer being made, and songs. Just before the last service was to be carried, I saw someone climb to the top of this pyramid or cone-like thing, and clang a big sheet of metal of some kind, or brass. There were camels, beautiful drapes and hangings, and costumes of the period. [See 294-8.] [Egypt:Ra-Ta Period] (A) This, as must be apparent to those concerned, WAS a raising - as it were - of the curtain to a physical happening to the body-physical giving the information, in which the entity seeking WAS associated. This just happened! There may be gained from this an understanding of the activities of that entity as recognized the surroundings as an actual experience, with hosts of those with whom entity or entities were associated. It represents the
294-131 Page 5
period through which so many are again attempting to do in realities, physically so, the same as of that period. From this may come the greater knowledge of the period, a better understanding of relationships of individuals and how they fit together, and may be then correlated with the experiences that happen from day to day.
7. (Q) Was this the Persian or Egyptian experience seen? (A) Egyptian; for it was the dedicating of that tomb or first cone pyramid not yet uncovered, and the tomb of so many that were associated at that time.
8. (Q) Who was the individual that climbed to the top and clang the big sheet of metal of some kind? (A) That entity has not yet approached for information. When he does, it will be given. It was the one who later became as the leader of those peoples that had FOLLOWED the priest BACK from the Nubian or Abyssinian country. [See 378-12 on 7/31/33 & 378-14, Par. 6-A on 9/26/33.]
9. (Q) At what time did this happen in this Egyptian period? (A) When the king that had entered was preparing for his own demise. [165] The father of the young king, or the ruler.
10. We are through. Copy to Self " " File " " Ass'n