This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 19th day of April, 1934, in accordance with request made by Miss [275], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mildred Davis, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading ... Avenue, 3:10 to 3:30 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., N.Y.
1. MD: You will have before you the [378] family, ... Ave., ..., N.Y., in regard to the great trouble with which they are faced on account of Mr. [378]'s disappearance and the card which they received from him this morning, mailed from Reading, Penna., last night at 7:20, indicating that he planned to take his life; the last address they know at which he might have been, being 129 No. 5th St., Reading, Penna. You will give them all the necessary instructions and advice as to how they can get to him, if possible, and just what they should do. We seek this help in the name of Jesus, the Christ, and according to His will. Amen.
2. EC: Yes, we have those conditions that confront those of the household, the [378] family.
3. In the affairs of individuals, through the activity of others and for the very faith that underlies those hopes, those aspirations of individuals, oft there come those experiences that seemingly cannot be borne. Yet each should know that He doeth all things well; that even that which is called impractical in the experiences or minds of some ye must do; ye must love one another, even thine enemies, even those that would do thee wrong. Know that God is in His holy temple, and those experiences that come to all must make our own lives, our own portions of Life or God - that we are experiencing - those things necessary for us to become less and less selfish in our motives, in that which would motivate our purposes, our ideals, our ideas respecting that others have had to bear - or as to what others have done respecting that they were called on to bear.
4. For, would we be forgiven, we must forgive. Would we have mercy, we must show mercy in our own lives, even though there may be felt in the consciousness of self that there has been little mercy; when there have been the greater attempts, the greater trials, to be of help and aid to
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others. And these very activities often, misconstrued, bring into the experience of those so trying, slurs, unkindnesses said here and there - those that look and behold not the beauty in that which has motivated those attempts on the part of self to learn more of the Father's ways with His children.
5. Keep thine heart in the way thou knowest, that He doeth all things well. No burden, in this mind, becomes too hard to bear. See not the burden, but rather be able to give expression - that the ways may be made the less tempestuous for those that are weary in bearing those burdens that seem too heavy to be borne.
6. For, believe ye in Me, that as ye ask in my name, that may the Father do, even unto those things that there may be yet the greater glorification of the Father in the minds and hearts and souls of those that are in turmoil, that are so burdened just now.
7. In seeking to communicate, only through those channels that have been and are of the regular nature or order may this be done speedily - as it has in part, and then - bear ye one with another. Seek peace in Him, that ye faint not; but that the joys of His love, His strength sustain thee, as He has given that they would in the hours of trial, in the hours of pain, in the hour of suffering. For, His love faileth not to sustain those that put their trust in Him. And though He slay thee, though He break thee as flax on the wheel, though He bestir thee to the depths of despair, know thy Redeemer liveth - and thou shalt see Him, and He shall purify thee in those things that thou doest that are lovely unto thy fellow man.
8. Those that bring for any contention and strife in feelings of resentment, either here or in those things that must shortly come to pass, will only close those views of His love making thee whole in thine own experience.
9. Then, seek in that channel through the offices that are for such purposes; and know that He can sustain in the hours of trial, even for him, just now.
10. Ready for questions.
11. (Q) Can you give more explicit directions - (A) (Interrupting) No more is asked by those in authority, and those only may seek - under the circumstances, through those in authoritative positions. See?
12. (Q) Do you indicate the body is still living? (A) This should be sought, just now.
13. We are through for the present. [Daughter submitted other questions.]
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