This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 24th day of March, 1925, in accordance with request made by self - [900].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Linden Shroyer.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading ... Street, 11:30 A. M. Dayton Time. New York City, N.Y.
1. GC: You will have before you the dream had by [900], ... Street, New York City, N.Y., in the early morning hours of Sunday, March 22, 1925, expressed by himself as follows: "First, my Father seemed to be in the background and all of us were down South in winter time. There was [137], [140], myself and [4167] in our party and we were in one room of a house, and the ocean seemed to be outside. In another room, very large, from which we were separated by heavy closed curtains, two of my old girl friends were giving a big dance. I wondered at not being invited and thought about their party. Then the hotel manager came thru and I said to him, 'It's pretty hot here in the summer time, isn't it?' He answered, 'Yes.' Then I thought of my Father and wrote him a letter, telling him of our good times and hoped he would approve, yet I was afraid he would not. Then it seemed we returned home to my father and secured his permission to return to the resort. This time it seemed the seashore, and we had two houses, one down South, the original, and one it seemed in New Jersey, where we plan to take a house. Again I wasn't sure of my Father's approval, and he always seemed in the background trying to show me things not to do. We had a big party and invited [137] and [140] and [4167] and others, but at another table next to us was another big party similar to those who had given the dance. We heard them singing in unison. Somehow, I was not happy. The relations between my brother and myself didn't seem the best. My Father seemed in background of my mind again, and I left the party to go down the beach to gaze at the sea. It fascinated me, attracted me, seemed majestic in its power and magnitude, and beautiful in the evening light. Yet even here with Father's help, I seemed to have some power, something I was struggling for, yet just missed achieving. I returned to party and a waiter came and paged [4167]; when he returned he told us he was wanted home, but he stayed with us anyway. Then I saw [137] sitting at the
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opposite side of the table and he was perspiring. I went over and sat next to him and he leaned against me and told me he was 'tight'. 'I might just as well get happy', he said, and I replied that we had better write Dad to see if he approved our staying any more. One of the party at the next table came up half tight and shook hands with [137] and said he knew him from University of Penn. [137] seemed to recognize him but not be overjoyed. We were then home again in N.Y. and planning to go to seashore again. My Uncle Saul, who was my father's brother, and is now also dead, called up and asked how we were going down, by car or by train, and when and what time. We all went down, my Dad in the background and I not sure of his approval. This time I seemed to go to the other house a lot, sometimes I would go right along the beach via a short cut, and other times would go back thru the house and go a long ways thru the country. That is, there might have been three houses, two near to each other at the seashore, one belonging to [137] and [140], and one to me, and the third house down South. To [137]'s house I'd go right along the beach, but it was a long trip thru country to third house. It was evening again, by the glorious sea I loved so much. I wanted to go down the beach to the neighboring house, but someone told me I couldn't, as a man (it may have been my Father's life enemy, my Uncle Saul) was driving a line in the sand with a stick and it seemed I could wander anywheres on the beach in my own province, but dare not step over that line. I wandered, enjoyed myself, yet was angry with [137] and [140], or the person who made that line. Next morning I took the long trip back thru the country and came to the house, passed thru the kitchen, where there were some people. Here my Father again was in background. In the evening they, [137] and [140], were giving a party - it seemed a farewell party, for we were to return home and I was sort of happy, as I felt my Dad wanted (my Dad seemed to be living home in New York at work), us home again. We had the party right near the ocean and it was wonderful. Yet that line of separation rankled in me. Then we heard and saw some fireworks. It seemed we had brought them, or that I had been the means of getting them to the place but Herbert Son has gotten possession of them and was firing them off. At first I wondered why he got such credit, then the thought of my Father came to me and I seemed to come very close the fireworks and the sea. There were sky rockets and Roman candles and I could just see the sparks in the sky close at hand. The sky was blue, the sparks high and brilliant, and Dad was there in the background as in the
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beginning. Please explain what each of the emblematical expressions represent, and what they should mean to me. Also what it is I am doing, have done, or may do that my Father and Guide was trying to warn me or guard me against. What is it, in relation to events that have happened in my life, are happening and may or will happen, that he is urging me to do? Has it to do with his enmity to my Uncle in his life time as exemplified in that I should not let same occur to [137] and I, and that recent thoughts of mine and events might lead that way? Has the house [137] and [140], and the house Mother, I, and [136] plan to take at the seashore this summer, and our relation to each other, those in [137]'s house and those in ours, anything to do with this? Is the Guide my Father warning me against that house or against something that might arise by my own actions in relation to our residences this summer?" You will give the interpretation and lessons to be gained from this in a detailed, clear and explicit manner, understandable to the mind of [900].
2. EC: Yes, we have the dream here, as has had by [900], and in same we see the exemplification in the conditions as are presented as passing through the mental forces of the body, [900], with the Guide, the Father, constantly in the background and guiding, guarding, directing in so far as the mental forces of [900] permits to guide and direct such urges, inclinations and conditions as are shown.
3. In this, we find the houses, homes, places, representing the abode, the indwelling of the individuals as are seen in the dream. The actions representing those mental conditions as come to each of the individuals seen in dream.
4. As in the dance, the girls, the room, the close connection, that portion of mentality, not as a condition to be wary against, yet as one that may not be understood by others, as is seen by the manager passing through to reprimand in a manner the conditions being carried on.
5. In the various positions of the dwellings, or homes, we find the various conditions as are represented in the dwelling of the mental forces of each entity considered in the dream. The relations toward each, that condition that may become a separation of the line were those elements of the mental carried in the attitude of the Uncle, yet with the Father's ever watchful care, in the mental forces ever seeking that care, we find each and every condition becomes simplified, and the conditions and relations as regarding the life of each entity becomes simplified, understood, capable of bringing the better elements to each and
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everyone.
6. The separate house or abode in the South representing that work that would in the summer represent the interests as are to be manifested in the mind of the mental forces of those connected with same in Institute Work. The line, demarcation, that element of injustice as would be set by following the mind of the Uncle. The Father we find in that manner presenting and showing the good that comes to the entity through following out such work; while the way as is through country and rough, representing the line of the trials through which the mental forces of body would pass in attempting to follow out such suggestion, yet we find all bringing the better care, attention, the better satisfaction, in the mind of each and everyone concerned. Hence the entity should carry out those lessons as would be gained from this condition. This representing also the care that should be kept in how that each, [137], [900], [140], [106], [4167] (the father shows who are about the individuals), depend one upon the other.
7. As is seen in the recall of [4167], this representing some condition that has been placed into the hands of the entity which will find a recall through same that will bring better understanding of some other conditions to the body, [900].
8. Then, in the lesson that is to be gained from this, the better is shown in the beauty, the quiet, the magnanimous mind acting in the words of the sea, the future, as it represents, taking hold of all the great conditions that enter in, whether of mental, spiritual, physical or moral welfare. Following, then, close in that manner in which the Guide, the Father, will bring to the body, [900], the greater understanding of each and every condition as will be placed in the life, whether of self, of others, of pertaining to the own moral life, of the own financial life, of the own home life, of the own social life, or the own exemplification of the higher ideals as are obtained in the study of the Universal Forces, as represented by the sea, the sun, the twilight, the moon's forces, and all of the beauty in nature.
9. Then keep in that way and manner, presenting self in all ways the correct channel, wherein there may be the closer communion between the good as is presented in the one-ness of Universal Forces manifested in a physical world.
10. As is shown in that manner in which Son took possession of that prepared for the hurrah as might be made in the place, this representing how that others may gain, others may have the glory in a physical manner, yet the ever
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present preparation as is prepared in self, in the secret, quiet moments represents that necessary for the waiting world.
11. We are through.