This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at Hotel Park Plaza, on West 77th St., New York City, this 27th day of March, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [349], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Miss [349].
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading ... Bronx, 6:30 to 6:45 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City.
1. HLC: You will have before you the body and soul mind of [349], present in this room, who submits herself for mental and spiritual guidance as to the purpose for her future existence in the earth plane at this time and how she may best fulfillit.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, the soul mind, [349], present in this room; this in part we have had before.
3. In seeking for advice and counsel for the application of self in the present experience for the greater material-mental satisfaction and the greater soul development, it is well for the body, as has been indicated, to not only in the material manner choose an ideal but most of all through the spiritual import. For the entity, the soul, must know that what is conceived in the spirit of truth with the ideal that is of the constructive nature will in its own due season bring the MATERIAL, the mental developments and make for that satisfaction, that understanding, that will make the experience in the earth the more and more worthwhile. Ideals of a material nature, as have been set at times by the body, break and fade and fall away. Only those that are conceived in the spirit of truth are lasting. For the soul is all that is eternal, and of which one may see the expressions in the material world. And this, then, must be the basis for the mental and material seeking also.
4. While the entity in the present is passing through those experiences that bring about doubts and fears, in the self has been builded much that in the material world - if it is held to - will find its own reward and will bring a contentment that may not be gainsaid in any way or manner.
5. As to the purposes for entering into the experience in the present, as has been indicated, there are many varied experiences, many associations wherein there were those
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ordinarily termed karmic conditions that are in the material-mental world opportunities for expression, as in training to or in relations with the spiritual imports or promptings of activity in the associations with same. As has been given, while a career may be sought in the material world, those periods for its expression have - in a manner - passed by on the other side; yet there are those fields of activity in the home, in the associations, in those relations in which the entity may bring into the material world that which will find in self and in the expressions of self in body, mind and soul, that which has been sought so much in the own experience.
6. Be patient, then. For in patience ye possess your soul; ye will become aware of thy soul and thy meeting with thy God in the temple of thy body. For thy body IS the temple of the living God. Hence it must be presented to Him in a holy and in an acceptable way and manner, as thine own conscience, as thine own ideal prompts thee from within. Meeting, then, those emergencies in thine daily experience ye will come to know more and more, to feel, to experience and to find activative in thine daily associations, that thy promptings are not for self expression but that the glory of thine ideal, thine God, may be manifested in thy dealings and thy associations with thy fellow man day by day. And these, founded in this, will bring material gain, moral and mental understanding, and soul and spiritual growth.
7. Ready for questions.
8. (Q) Advise me about marriage - with whom should it be, and will it be, and when should it be or when will it be? (A) As has been indicated, this is the greater channel for expression of this body and its ideals. As has been given, there is one with whom the body is acquainted or associated that will make for the proper union [4948]; but the response must be within the inner self and the answering of the individual associate as answering to the ideal within self. As to who, choose thou.
9. (Q) When should it be? (A) When the promptings of thine own conscience and of thine own experience bring it to pass.
10. (Q) What about my present job? (A) Hold to it!
11. (Q) How long will I stay there? (A) As long as the associations and the conditions are such as they exist in the present.
12. (Q) What about [2573] or [4948]? (A) As given, this is an ideal association from these angles, but it must be answered within self.
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13. (Q) Why do I feel as I do about [2573]? (A) There has been an association and an attraction one for another, as in the Grecian experience. On the other hand, there have been the obligations that [4948] owes to the body; these make the variations.
14. (Q) What were the obligations, and when were they made? (A) In the former appearance or the associations of each in the Persian experience, when [4948] was dependent upon not only the material activities but the associations for the very life itself in the expression or experience at the time. So it makes for those associations that might be in the present wherein it would not only make for merely convenience, but for that which would be builded into the union of body and mind for a strength of purpose.
15. (Q) Why do I feel as I do about [4948]? (A) As the sex of any where they have depended upon or been the source of supply for those of the opposite, there is an aversion; yet in unison there would come a variation in such.
16. (Q) What about a theatrical career, and movies? (A) As just given, this would best be passed in the present; and BUILD same in the seed of thine own body.
17. (Q) Even though, and if, married, won't I have to work? (A) Not necessarily.
18. (Q) What would the prospects be if I were to marry [2573]? (A) This depends upon what the body would make of same; for it would be building a different association and relation.
19. (Q) Would that be as well as the association with [4948]? (A) This shall be judged by self and not from here, for we have given which is best.
20. (Q) Any other general advice or counsel for the body at this time? (A) Know what is thine ideal, not only material or mental but - most of all - from the promptings of the spirit within; studying to show thyself approved, not unto man, not unto that of man's making, but unto thy Maker; keeping thyself in that way and manner which will make for the glorifying of thy activities in His sight.
21. We are through with this reading. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file