This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 31st day of December, 1924, in accordance with request made by self, [900].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading ... Broadway, 10:00 P. M. Dayton Time. New York, New York.
1. GC: You will have before you the reading on [900], with questions on subject matter, given December 31st, 1924, at 1:10 P.M. [900-15], and you will continue with the answers to the questions, as I ask them.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the mental forces, the enquiring mind, the seeking for knowledge with the entity, [900], and the subject matter as given.
3. We would study well that as has been given, and apply self in this present earth plane, that the gifts as are accorded the entity may manifest in this present day and generation. Be not as him who was given one talent and hid same for fear of the austere giver, but rather as him who was given ten talents, that more may be added unto him, until he enter into that as was given, "Enter into the joys of thy labors, and sit down on the right hand, for as thou hast been faithful over a few, I will make thee ruler over many." Enter into the work, then, with an humble heart, and with the joy of the labor, and the peace and the blessings of many will come to thee.
4. Ready for questions.
5. (Q) Explain the various planes of eternity, in their order of development, or rather explain to us the steps through which the soul must pass to climb back into the arms of beloved God. (A) These, we see, must be manifest only as the finite mind in the flesh. As in the spirit forces, the development comes through the many changes, as made manifest in the evolution of man. In the development in eternity's realm, is that a finite force as made of creation may become one with the Creator, as a unit, atom, or vibration, becomes one with the universal forces. When separated, as each were in the beginning, with the many changes possible in the material forces, the development then comes, that each spirit entity, each earth entity, the counterpart of the spirit entity, may
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become one with the Creator, even as the ensample to man's development through flesh, made perfect in every manner; though taking on flesh, yet without spot or blemish, never condemning, never finding fault, never bringing accusation against any, making the will one with the Father, as was in the beginning. For, without passing through each and every stage of development, there is not the correct vibration to become one with the Creator, beginning with the first vibration, as is of the spirit quickened with the flesh, and made manifest in material world (earth's plane). Then, in the many stages of development, throughout the universal, or in the great system of the universal forces, and each stage of development made manifest through flesh, which is the testing portion of the universal vibration. In this manner then, and for this reason, all made manifest in flesh, and development, through the eons of time, space, and CALLED eternity.
6. (Q) What is this spirit entity in the body, [900], and how may he develop it in the right direction? (A) This is only the portion that develops other than in the earth's plane. Spirit entity. For soul's development is in the earth's plane. The spirit entity is in the spirit plane.
7. (Q) Does the spirit entity have a separate consciousness apart from the physical, and is it as the consciousness of [900] when he dreams, or has visions, while asleep? (A) The spirit entity is a thing apart from any earthly connection in sleep, yet connected. For the earthly or material consciousness is ever tempered with material conditions; the superconsciousness with the consciousness between soul and spirit, and partakes of the spiritual forces principally. In consciousness we find only projections of subconscious and superconscious, which conditions project themselves in dreams, visions, unless entered into the superconscious forces. In the consciousness of earthly or material forces there enters all the attributes of the physical, fleshly body. In the subconscious there enters the attributes of soul forces, and of the conscious forces. In the superconscious there enters the subconscious forces, and spiritual discernment and development.
8. (Q) Does the spiritual entity, after leaving this earth's plane, have full realization of the physical life, or experience through which it passed while on earth's plane? (A) It may, should it so choose. As has been given. As in this: In the way that the spiritual insight was given into
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the heart and soul of Saul of Tarsus, as he beheld his Master in that realm to which he had passed. The consciousness in the material world, through the material consciousness of another material individual. The vision as beheld by him, in the way that of the superconscious manifests in his subconsciousness.
9. (Q) The body, [900], has now full realization of [Mr. Cayce, breaking in: "No, he hasn't the full realization of this, as yet."] his individuality and of the personalities about him, all being in this earth's plane. Will that full realization remain with him in the next plane, or when he leaves this earth's sphere? Will he know he was [900] on earth, an individual with definite personality and character, and will he be able to realize that which he was and that which he has become? (A) When he, [900], has reached that perfect realization of these consciousnesses of personae and personalities of individuals, and of self, (to which he may develop) he will become able to attain such superconsciousness in a spiritual plane, as has been outlined. At present, no.
10. (Q) Now give this body, [900], that information which will lead him, when in communion with his God, and when in vision while asleep, to the knowledge of why the soul was fated to enter into all these experiences in order to develop of its own free will to perfection, and then return to God, when God first created souls in a perfect state. Was it to force the spirit to choose with its will the righteous path to God, in spite of any circumstances and conditions? Was it to see if that which once created perfect would return to the perfect? Explain and illustrate? (A) This we find has been given, and is manifest in the life of the lowly Nazarene. As has been given, man was made a little lower than the angels, yet with that power to become one with God, while the angel remains the angel. In the life, then, of Jesus we find the oneness made manifest through the ability to overcome all of the temptations of the flesh, and the desires of same, through making the WILL ONE WITH THE FATHER. For as we find, oft did He give to those about Him those injunctions, "Those who have seen me have seen the Father," and in man, He, the Son of Man, became one with the Father. Man, through the same channel, may reach that perfection, even higher than the angel, though he attend the God.
11. We are through for the present.