This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Kahn home in Scarsdale, N.Y., this 25th day of November, 1937 in accordance with request made by self - Edgar Cayce.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Hugh Lynn Cayce, Lucille, David, S. David and Richard Kahn, Mary and Thomas Sugrue.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 7:10 to 7:35 P. M. ..., N.Y.
1. GC: You will have before you the enquiring minds of those gathered here. You will give at this time information which will help us to understand the laws governing the selection by an entity of time, place, race, color, sex, and the parents at any rebirth into the earth plane - especially the possibility of Edgar Cayce, present in this room, bringing through in his next incarnation memory of this life. If possible we would like to be advised as to how proof of such memory can be established by leaving a record or money now that may be called for during the next appearance.
2. EC: Yes, we have the enquiring minds of those present here, as a group, as individuals - and those conditions as may be taken here from the records, the experiences or entrances of soul-entities into the material or earthly plane.
3. This condition, as has so oft been given, varies as to time - according to developments of entities as related to material expression of spiritual activities, or as to the manner or the character of the removal from the material experience.
4. As to race, color or sex - this depends upon that experience necessary for the completion, for the building up of the purposes for which each and every soul manifests in the material experience.
5. For as is generally accepted, and as is in greater part true, the experiences of a soul-entity in materiality, in the three-dimensional sphere of activity, are as lessons or studies in that particular phase of the entity's or soul's development.
6. Development for what? That it which the Giver of all good and perfect gifts gave the expressions in materiality when spirit had entangled itself in matter. Thus that which has been given: The will of the Father is that no soul shall perish, but that ALL shall come to know Him and He is. For God IS, and seeks that man should worship Him in spirit
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and in truth, even as He is Spirit, is Truth; not as a condition only but as an experience, as a manifestation.
7. As love is the expression for experiences in life manifested in the earth, so is the experience of the soul in the earth dependent upon that plane, that experience, as to its race or color or sex. For if there has been the error in that phase, in that expression, the error must be met. For indeed as has been given, whatsoever ye sow, so shall ye reap. And these are gathered only in the phases of experience in which the associations, the activities, the relations have been. Thus as there is continuity of life expression, so must it continue.
8. They who have done error suddenly, they who are advanced, they who have not met a whole expression may suddenly [reincarnate?] - as you count time.
9. As for the entity Edgar Cayce, this depends then as to when that experience has been reached in which the union of purposes of entities in materiality has created that expression, that phase, to which the entity's development may reach to find expression through same. How did He give? As the tree falls, so does it lie.
10. Then as this entity builds in the present experience, creating that activity, that union, that expression of divine love toward the fellow men, then where that is left off - the period of expression is begun where it may take hold.
11. As to when - it may be perhaps a hundred, two hundred, three hundred, a thousand years - as you may count time in the present. This may not be given. For how gave He? The day no man knoweth, ONLY the Father in heaven knoweth it; and it is provided you so live, as He gave, that "I may sit upon the right hand and my brother upon the left." These are not to be given; they are prepared for those who have through their meeting with their fellow men manifested that which brings them into that association, that consciousness, that unfoldment as to where they become, may become, that which may in the greater manner manifest that love of the Father to the children of men. As to when - no man knoweth; only the Father. Ready for questions.
12. (Q) Would you suggest any way that a record may be left by an entity? (A) By LIVING the record! For when the purposes of an entity or soul are the more and more in accord with that for which the entity has entered, then the soul-entity may take HOLD upon that which may bring to its remembrance that it was, where, when and how. Thinkest thou that the grain of corn has forgotten what manner of expression it has given?
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Think thou that ANY of the influences in nature that you see about you - the acorn, the oak, the elm, or the vine, or ANYTHING - has forgotten what manner of expression? Only man forgets! And it is only in His mercy that such was brought about. For what was the first cause? Knowledge - knowledge! What then is that cut off in the beginnings of the Sons of God? Becoming entangled with the daughters of men, and the Daughters of God becoming entangled with the sons of men! As in Adam they forgot what manner of men they were! Only when he lives, he manifests that life that IS the expression of the divine, may man BEGIN to know WHO, where, what and when he was! That there may be read from the records of God's Book of Remembrance, as from here, in the keepers of the records, is true - if thy purpose, thy desire, in heart, in soul, is for the love of God as may be manifested among the sons of men; but these may read only by those in the shadows of His love.
13. We are through for the present. Two copies to Edgar Cayce Copy to Ass'n file