This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest W. Zentgraf, 400 St. Paul''s Ave., Stapleton, S.I., N.Y., this 3rd day of February, 1934, in accordance with request made by those present - and by self, Mrs. Eileen Garrett, new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. T. Mitchell Hastings.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Eileen Garrett; Margaret Naumberg; T. Mitchell Hastings; Helene, Ernest, Robert, Margret and Lilian Zentgraf; Eleanor and Adolph Ostwald.
R E A D I N G
33 West 51st Time of Reading Street, 11:50 to 12:25 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. N.Y.C.
1. HLC: Now you will have before you the soul entity now known as Eileen Garrett, present in this room. You will give at this time such information regarding her work which will be interesting and helpful in relation to our experiments today. You will answer the questions which I will ask.
2. EC: Yes, we have the entity, the soul entity, Eileen Garrett, here, present in this room.
3. As to that which may be helpful to those that seek to know that there is the continuity of life, that there is to be gained from those activities in the realm of soul forces that may act through the psychic forces in each individual soul, know that that which may be given through this entity is that which is received through the varied channels that present themselves in that atmosphere or that environ that seeks for an understanding in those fields of activity that may bring to the manifested actions of individuals those influences that may have to bear upon the lives and souls of individuals.
4. As to how, to whom, or from what sources these emanations or activities may take their action, depends upon first the sincerity of purpose, as to whether it is to be constructive in the experience of such seekers or whether through self there is to be the aggrandizement of power, influence or force upon and in the experience. For, as ye sow, so shall ye reap.
5. As there are only those influences in self that may separate the knowledge of the constructive influence in the life; so only self may find those influences through such a channel that will be to meet the needs of those things
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necessary in self's experience for the greater development.
6. Ready for questions.
7. (Q) Explain how this information is now being given for Mrs. Garrett, the source of this information. (A) Being given through that which has been builded in the life and the experience of Mrs. Garrett, and taken from those records made by such activities.
8. (Q) What is the source of Mrs. Garrett's psychic information? (A) A portion is from the soul development of the entity, that has made and does make for a channel through which spiritual or psychic forces may manifest in a material world; and thus giving that to which the seekers may find in their own particular field of activity. Also from those influences from without that are either in those attitudes of being teachers, instructors, directors, or those that would give to those in the material plane the better comprehension of the continuance of a mental and soul activity.
9. (Q) For what purpose was this power given to her? (A) That there might be given, as it were, the opportunity for the soul to use that it had builded within self to make for a manifestation in a material world of those influences that are without and within. For, as has been given, the spirit maketh alive - and the kingdom of truth and light is within. With the abilities that are manifested through this soul entity, of subjugation of the influences from the material or carnal influences of experience, making then for self a channel through which there may come those forces or sources from the source of ALL supply. For, the Father giveth ever the increase, whether in material things, mental understanding or spiritual comprehension of that which is within thine own realm or ken. When these then are used or abused, in such manners as to be used only for self indulgencies, self-aggrandizement, the fruits of these must be contention and strife, inharmony and the like. As has ever been in all experiences, like begets like. For, the purposes, the desires, are both spiritual and carnal, and as to the soul development of same is as to what are the fruits of such activities. "By their fruits ye shall know them," whether they be of those that make for tares in the experiences of the souls of men, or whether they be of wheat or some other grain that maketh for an increase in the activities of such individuals in their associations with their fellow man. For, in the material world may there only
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be used in spirit that which creates for the spiritual life. And as ye do unto your fellow man, so may the activity of the individual be in that line, as to whether it fulfill those purposes for which it came into being, with those talents that have been developed through the experiences of the entity in its application of truth, life and understanding to material things.
10. (Q) How can Mrs. Garrett develop her ability to the highest degree? (A) By keeping self in accord in the inner self with that which is the highest that may manifest itself through the abilities and faculties of the soul body. Thus may it give to the seeker, thus may it give to those that would knock; for, as He has promised ever, if ye seek in the light of thine understanding, trusting in Him for the increase, so may this attitude being kept ever within self make for self being that channel through which only the constructive influences may come into the experience of the seeker.
11. (Q) Do Mrs. Garrett's psychic powers depend on previous development? If so, describe the development which made this present manifested ability possible. (A) As has been indicated, depends upon much that has been soul development of the entity. And during those experiences when there were those in the lands now known as the Arabian and Persian, when there was the comprehension of the application of the truths in the spiritual relations of the souls of men, with the constructive influences in the activities of individuals, during those days and periods when those activities known as the Zoroastrian were active in the peoples of the land. The entity then was not only an instructor, a teacher, one that gave much to aid peoples at that period when the fires of life had burned low, but the entity made for the awakening within the hearts and minds of many those relationships that should exist between the creative influences in the spiritual realms with the activities among men. Hence a guide, a teacher, that aided much in those experiences, aids in manifesting to those that seek to see materializations of those forces that would make for presenting of lessons, of tenets, of the various theses of understanding in the experiences of individuals.
12. (Q) Who are Mrs. Garrett's spiritual guides, and tell us something about them? (A) Let them rather speak for themselves through that channel that is capable rather of presenting them in their light to that which has been the development of the soul itself in its experiences in the earth in the realms of their activity. For, their names are rather in HER
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experience, in HER seeking, than to find through other channels; even though they may be coming from the records that are made by each in their activity. Speak for thyself.
13. (Q) What counsel have you for Mrs. Garrett's spiritual development? (A) Present self in thine own inner conscience in such a way and manner that answers for the conscience within self of its own soul development. And as the soul remains true to that which is its ideal from within, it may never give that other than constructive in its speech with those that seek to know the mysteries of soul and self-development; that has made of itself a channel through which men may approach those mysteries of life, and their activities in the minds, the hearts and the souls of men.
14. (Q) Is Mrs. Garrett contacting the highest possible sources for information in accordance with her development? (A) As the soul seeks, higher and higher may be those influences of the activities in the experience for the DEVELOPMENT of others in THEIR approach to such realms. When the soul seeks for self, for self's own protection and for self's own activities, it reaches the highest that is for that soul's development. When the self is open to those that would question or would counsel with, dependent upon the desire, the purposes, the aims, as to from what source or channel; as it does for ANY soul that has opened itself for the activities of those influences that are in and about a material world. Yet for the self, for the soul's protection, for the abilities, it seeks, it contacts that which is sufficient unto the needs of the soul in its development.
15. (Q) Is there any way in which Mrs. Garrett may be of special service to the work of Edgar Cayce? (A) As their channels of activity cross or run one into another, in the various phases of experience, there may be those aids that will be for the common good of all. Rather than that it may aid any individual work as of Edgar Cayce or any other source. Rather those who give themselves (as both may be found to be doing) for the common good of mankind, as they merge in their efforts in these directions, may there be the aids rather one for the other. For, as has been given, in the union there is strength; whether this be applied in those things pertaining to the least in the earth or the greater in the realm of the spiritual activity. Hence, as each in clear purpose of desire to be of aid to their fellow man, not for self - but that the glory of God may be manifested in the hearts and souls of men, THUS may each aid the other. For, as He has given, whether in body, in mind or spirit, ye come seeking to make known the love of
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the Father in the earth to the sons of men, ye may aid one another.
16. (Q) Would you explain why Edgar Cayce uses this method of hypnosis for going into trance? (A) That as has oft been given, from the physical development, or physical-mental development of the body, it has become necessary that there be the entire removal of the physical forces and physical attributes from the mental and spiritual and soul forces of the entity, to seek that through that built in the SOUL-body of the entity it may contact that which may be constructive in the experiences of those to whom such sources or such supplies of information may be brought.
17. (Q) How did it arise? Was it accident, or some entity or group suggest this plan? (A) Soul development, rather. And the ability to, through those experiences in the earth in the varied activities, lay aside the consciousness that the soul and the spirit and the truth might find its way through to the seeker.
18. (Q) Do you suggest that trance is a useful method for help? (A) Trance to the individual is as the necessary stimuli for each soul in its own development. There be those who may through their intuitive activity, that has subjugated the influences in the material, allow the mental soul to manifest. There be those who through looking into the past, or into the aura, or into all or any of those things that are as witnesses about every soul that walks through this vale. For, those that may lay aside the veil, in whatever form or manner, may make for the approach of aiding those in seeking to know that necessary in their development in the present experience.
19. (Q) If Edgar Cayce has ever had controls, does he know who they are? (A) Anyone may speak who may seek, if the entity or the soul's activities will allow same; or if the desire of the individuals seeking so over commands as to make for a set channel.
20. (Q) Is Edgar Cayce clairvoyant in the hypnotic state? (A) More so in the normal or physical state than in the hypnotic state; though ALL are one when in perfect accord with the universal forces from which the records of all activities may be taken.
21. (Q) If Edgar Cayce goes into trance without any control, could he not in a waking state get the inspiration direct? (A) Not until there has been a more perfect cleansing of the carnal influences in the experiences of the soul, as has been indicated. With the regeneration that should come into
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the experience of the entity, this then may be the manner, the channel, the way through which much of constructive forces may be given.
22. (Q) What entity is giving this information now? (A) Being directed, as has been indicated, from the records through Halaliel.
23. We are through. Copy to Mrs. Garrett " " Mrs. Zentgraf " " Ass'n file