This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 6th day of January, 1934, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [479], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [641].
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 11:30 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Alabama. (Physical Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the body and those conditions physical and mental that disturb the better manifestations of life and its meaning through the physical forces as manifested in this body.
2. Now, as we find, in giving the physical conditions that may be aided in bringing about for the body better manifestations, it would be rather the analyses of the conditions physical and mental that confront the body, or that must be met by the body.
3. That there are physical defects in the structural portion, or in apparent manifestations through the mental, that are prenatal in their basic forces is too often condemned by the entity - and if there is the proper understanding of that which is Life in a manifestation, and the spiritual force that prompts the activity of same, these may be BY ALL better understood.
4. For, when there are those activities in a material world that bring about the forces or influences wherein there may be the action of a soul in its development, that which is often counted as sin or error is for the mercy to a soul from an All-Wise and beneficent Father that is directing, planning, giving the soul an opportunity for the use of that which may come into the experience OF that soul in the material plane. And what the soul, through its body and mind and attributes of same, does about the knowledge and consciousness of the indwelling of the spirit of life through the Christ in the earth is the opportunity for that soul to develop.
5. Hence in this particular body, rather than condemning, rather than closing self to the abilities in self or the opportunities wherein there may be made manifest in self that there is no condemning, but rather that self may use the opportunity, the privilege, to manifest under handicap or under those conditions that are existent within self -
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for the better manifesting of the love that is shed among men, through the activities in any one experience or environ.
6. For, when a soul, a body-mind, a consciousness CONDEMNS, it is but a selfish manifestation - and is the attempt, as of the first errors, to BLAME that self has to do upon another.
7. But if the soul will but know that the love of the Father (that has been manifested through His Son, who overcame sin, error, dis-ease, disease and even death itself in the material plane) has promised that through the consciousness of that life of the Christ awakening within us, as the consciousness of His indwelling presence, it may bring also healing in His wings, and that which had apparently been a hindrance may come to be the measure through which others may come to have the greater knowledge, the greater understanding of the Christ Consciousness, the Christ Life in the own experience, then all material problems will be understood and overcome.
8. And rather than shutting self away from associates or companionship, if the consciousness will but make for the fruits of the spirit of the Christ being manifest, there will be the seeking on the part of others to BE NEAR, to be in the light of that which may be shed abroad by such a soul, in such a body making manifest in this mundane sphere that love, that life, that graciousness of the Christ spirit in the life.
9. Hence, as we would find, if the body will thus find in self and in self's experience, there may come that CLEANSING within the physical forces of the body that will MAKE the body-SOUL whole indeed!
10. Hence, SEEK to know HIS ways with thee. Not alone by denying that sin or error exists. TRUE, sin and error is not of GOD - save through His sons that BROUGHT error, through selfishness, into the experience of the souls of men, the body by which angels and archangels are separate from the fullness of the Father. For, in His mercy He has given to all that which is the desire of every heart in a material plane - to seek companionship in a manner that there may be the exchange of experiences in whatsoever sphere the body-soul may find self. And in so doing, if there is the manifestation of greed, avarice, hate, selfishnesses, unkindliness, ungodliness, it makes for the harkenings that bring their fruit - contention, strife, hate, avarice, and separation from the light. For, those that have turned their face FROM the light of God can only see shadow or darkness and that light is only for those far
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away. Yet, if the soul will but turn to the Father of love as manifested in the earth through the Christ, in this life also may there be seen the light and the glory of a NEW birth.
11. That all have been conceived in sin is only a partial truth; hence often makes a whole lie to those that in the body find their own physical selves may find that which to their own consciousness they can condemn in another. But to condemn - even as the Master taught when the moral laws, or when the physical laws or spiritual laws were being broken and were presented to Him as examples whereunto they would question Him, He always answered: "Thou hast no power over me save it be given thee from the Father, who has not left His children alone but ever seeks that they should know that the Redeemer liveth." And His light, His life, His love, CLEANSETH every WHIT! And, as He said unto the woman, "Neither do I condemn thee, but sin no more." Neither did He set for her any moral law but that which was conscious within her own soul as to the acts in the physical that would tend to separate or to turn the light into darkness in the life of that soul. And as she came to be known among those that had sought the light, her life became that which led many to an understanding - and still will bring life, light and comprehension to many.
12. So in thine own self, know that THEREIN lies the spirit of God - the SOUL of thine self. The spirit will quicken, if the soul will but acknowledge His power, His divine right WITHIN thee!
13. Then, let the acts of thine body, the temple of thine soul, be kept clean in thine own consciousness even as the presence of the Master cleansed every body that sought aid from physical dis-ease or corruption and made for the manifesting of the fruits of the spirit, of truth in their lives. Not that it saved the BODY from the grave, not that it saved a body from its transition from one sphere to another - but QUICKENED rather the soul and ITS mind to such a degree that it would ever cry as did the Master in His message of old to His peoples that had been led through the trials and tribulations, "Others may do as they may, but as for me I - my soul, my body, my mind - will serve the LIVING God!" [Josh. 24:15]
14. Blessed is he whom the Lord chasteneth, for He loveth every one - and will quicken those that call on His name and act in accordance with the directions that are given every soul to know to do good and to do it not becomes sin, but to know that He - the Christ - will stand within thy stead and will cleanse the soul-body every whit, that it may stand
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before the throne of grace every whit CLEAN!
15. Then, make thy prayers unto Him, giving glory, power and praise unto Him - and in this manner may that which has SEEMED to be to thee as a hindrance become a steppingstone to the glory of thine own soul!
16. We are through. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file