This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 19th day of February, 1934, in accordance with request made by self - Miss [516], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by A.S.P.R.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis, L. B. and Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 11:45 to 12:00 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., N.Y.
1. GC: You will have before you the body and enquiring mind of [516], Brooklyn, N.Y., in regard to The New York Society of Craftsmen at 43 East 60th St., New York City. Being on the Nominating Committee of that Society, the body seeks guidance that will help her and benefit the Society indirectly. You will give any advice regarding new officers and new policy, and continue guidance of the teachers in the Spirit World, if they feel the cause we are working for is worthy. You will answer the questions which will be submitted, as I ask them.
2. EC: Yes. We are approaching it wrong.
3. Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [516], with her interest in New York Society of Craftsmen, and the problems that confront this organization at the present time.
4. As we find, we would give this as an advice and counsel: There is one, Sedgwick [?], as associated with the organization (Craftsmen) that would be well to consider in an official capacity for the betterment of the general conditions as related to the activities of the Society of Craftsmen.
5. These conditions, as we find, exist: While the general stress and strain that has existed and does exist in the experience of a greater number of the members of the association of craftsmen has been due to the hindered and hampered general economic conditions in the experiences of all, the activity and work of the association is worth while. The attempt in some measures to assist in the associations of individuals in their memberships and in their connections with the various activities of individuals has been well, but the activities have been of such a nature that this has drawn so heavily upon the funds and finances of the organization as to make THIS policy almost untenable at the present time.
6. Then, in making the arrangements for the continuance of
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the activity of the Society, the more compatible associations and relations - the abilities for the organization to function in a way and manner as to bring aid and help through the meeting of the associations and the fellow craftsmen in their various activities, to draw comparisons of the work of the individuals and to classify same under the activities in the various fields of the endeavors of the individuals - would be to consider the future operations rather than the individual aid to others, see?
7. We would also find that many of those that have been in the position of officers, as the vice-president and as the secretary and as the board of governors, that make for the policies of the organization, would follow along much of the same lines as heretofore in their activities, but making in the activities this new change - as new blood into the organization - would make for the bettered conditions in the same.
8. First in the meetings, then, let this be as the basis for not only the operating but the activities of all members present, as they meet in the early portion of the coming weeks for the consideration of those who are to be put into place:
9. Are the policies of the organization at the present able to furnish to its membership sufficient aid under the present line of endeavors as to be called capable of, or having, a place in the affairs of such individuals? Merely to have an organization, unless it fills a place in the experiences of individuals that makes for constructive influences in their experience, in their lives, gives little of value or worth whileness.
10. With some change in policy in the direction as indicated, as we find (and help by such an one), a worth whileness and a constructive experience may be brought for each individual; and the membership then may be extended in such a way and manner as to become more helpful to all that are of this field of activity, for they may be aided through such.
11. Do that.
12. We are through for the present. Copy to [516] " " Ass'n file