This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 2nd day of July, 1925, in accordance with request made by self - [900].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 12:00 Noon Dayton Savings Time. ..., N.J.
1. GC: You will have before you the body and enquiring mind of [900], of ..., N.J., and the dreams this body had on the dates which I will give you. You will give the interpretation and lessons to be gained from each of these, as I read same to you.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the mind, of [900] here, with the dreams this body has had, with their various connections, the study of the entity and the effect of same on the conscious development of the mental proclivities of the mind of this body, for we find many of these have to do, in an emblematical way, with the conditions the body dwells upon in thought and in the manner of action as is sought through the minds of the individual.
3. (Q) June 29, 1925, at home. "I was with a man who was a paralytic and was confined to a wheel chair. We went into the country and he seemed much attracted by the girls. (A) (Interrupting) Now, in this portion of this, we find this is following the thought that has been put on the subject of the good that may be had to those in an afflicted state, and the entity seeks out such, and one in such a state, and in the groups of the ones that are attracted to the entity, we find the harkening back to conditions as is sometimes felt, that is related in some manner to that condition.
4. (Q) (Beginning again) We went out into the country and he seemed much attracted by the girls. (A) (Interrupting) We have given this.
5. (Q) (Continuing) I sure get 'em good-looking, he said. You pick up a bunch, don't you? I questioned. No, he evaded slyly. My girl days are over. Then we came to a place in the grass and I saw [140], my sister-in-law. She seemed to be playing some game with marked spikes. I took them and tossed them to the ground. (EC interrupted here. Rest, presented below, not read.) They fell in a groove in a bunch. I looked and saw the spikes in a heap with square heads and something written on each head. You can't play that way, [140] said, referring
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to the way the spikes fell in a heap. Disappointed, I answered, I've played this game long enough to know. I examined inscriptions on spike heads. Back to the paralyzed man in his chair. It seemed he had gotten out of his chair on some escapade with women. He said to me. Boy, I sure do pick 'em off good. I wondered how he, paralyzed, did it, and tried to see his face. I got his profile of reddish color. We went to his home and entering met what seemed to be his wife. She went to the window and looking out said, Here's a good-looking girl. The paralyzed man struggled out of his wheeled chair, had a hard time getting to the window. In a stooped and weakened condition, I went with him and looked out of the window. With them on to the Street. I saw no one. Suddenly a groan and I saw his wife reach to support the sick man, who was sinking to the ground. I grabbed for his arm and felt the soft flesh squash in my hand, and noticed how thin his arms were. In agony he slid to the ground, stretched out on his back on the bare floor. I thought he ought have a covering under him and his wife moved a rug underneath him. He seemed dead, although maybe only unconscious. I wanted to help do something. Maybe it would be better to bring the chair over to him, I remarked and walked over to get the wheeled chair." (A) [See Par. 8-A below.]
6. (Q) Tuesday, June 30, at home in ... "It seemed [143] my niece was sick, or having her tonsils removed and was in one room at one end of a hall, her mother, [140] and others, in another room at other end of hall. I was in a room in the middle of hall between the other two rooms. I went into [140]'s and [106]'s room. They were worried and told me of [143]. I decided to get a reading from Cayce on [143]. I got it. The reading said [143] had died on Friday. I felt terrible, but told no one of the reading. I went into [143]'s room, expecting to find her dead. Instead, she opened her eyes and looked up at me. The rest came in and I was happy. I had said nothing of Cayce's reading, but how about that I reasoned? Can the psychic force be wrong? It recalled other seeming inaccuracies. I still believed in the Force in Cayce but said nothing and kept wondering, can Cayce be wrong?" (A) [See Par. 9-A below.]
7. (Q) "[137] and I were talking together and I said to him, "You know what I can do. I can transfer from Columbia University to Yale." I was happy about that and strolled in the Park, seeing the green, flowers and hills. Then I discovered I couldn't go to Yale University, for how could I and still attend to business. I was disappointed. We all
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went up to a football game and sat in the grandstand with many others. I seemed to know one fellow on the team. He had on a red jersey instead of blue like the rest. He was carrying the ball, but no, I said, it isn't time for him to shine yet, or I thought that way in the back of my head. So I had him figure little in the first quarter of the game. Then in the second quarter of the game it was his time to be a hero, so he carried the ball over the line for a touch down. I stood up and yelled, "Yea Merzback." Then it seemed the proper time for him to be hurt, but he stood stock still, staring as a statue. The same reasoning came in the back of my head, or I seemed to be fitting events to my thoughts or dream. He ought to fall down, I thought. Why the dickens does he stand up? Then he sank to the ground and stayed there. Well, where were the others? Why didn't they come up and help him, cheer him, etc? Accordingly, up they came and performed the usual first aid treatments, but his face seemed of putty or clay, and as they tried to move it he complained that he didn't want to be brought to. Why can't you leave me in peace? he seemed to complain. Then he was on his feet, trotted down the field, waving to his mother, who was in the grandstand, admonishing her not to worry. That was fine of him, I thought, and wanted to cheer and wondered why they didn't. Then I was in my office with [137] and we were attending to business and writing checks. I saw some numbers." (A) [See Par. 10-A below.]
8. (Q) [See Par. 4-Q and 5-Q above.] (A) Again we find the co-relation of conditions pertaining to portions of thought and the turn into a game, as is seen, with others connected in thought with such conditions, and the representative of action in same seen, with marked spikes, or pointers, directions, towards such work, or game, as presented, projecting self in the attempt to correlate or to bring together the action of the mental proclivities of the mind in that of analysis and of the matter of fact or unanalytical mind of the subconscious forces. As is seen in the attempt to play the game and recognizing the inability to accomplish same. The return then to the action of the paralytic, and the going into the home and seeing, realizing the social status of the individual, and still recognizing a condition of unethical conditions, again the same attempt of co-relating of the mental and subconscious forces, directed by thought, as has been, in action in the physical and mental mind, and the desire to be of assistance when the body comes to the position of need of same, with recognition of the condition of body of paralytic, again the unbounding
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of the forces as recognized in the condition as has been uppermost in the inner recesses of the mind of the individual. Then, the lesson that the entity may gain from this, as to some laws regarding physical, mental reaction with the subconscious forces, for with the enquiring mind of the entity, the entity may co-relate the past thoughts in a short period before this occurred, or conversation and thought as occurred on 27th and 28th with others regarding just such conditions; then the lesson that the mind partakes and the subconscious builds upon such.
9. (Q) [See Par. 6-Q above.] (A) As also in the one of 30th, when the vision of the body of one close to entity is in distress, and the knowledge of the mother being in distress regarding such conditions, the seeking of knowledge pertaining to such conditions, and the seeming discrepancy in information obtained, the happiness as is seen in the knowing same has proved to be untrue; yet keeping knowledge of same to self, the wondering, the attempting to co-relate conditions pertaining to same; this, as we see, again the action of the mental condition of mind acting upon the subconscious forces and presenting in a definite happening in imaginary manner conditions that became as existent realities in the entity, yet the thought, the truth as seen and weighed, then a portion of the subconscious forces weighed in the balance of a conscious physical mind. The lesson as gained, that of another angle of the approach of conscious forces in mental to subconscious forces of spiritual entity, and how the reasoning of same becomes co-related with such, and the subconscious becomes then analytical when acting through the trained forces of the higher conscious mind, yet that as elements of truth never failing to present their elements, and the basis of sound reasoning then is from the inner consciousness, directed by the trained conscious mind, and approaches again close to the action of fourth dimensional natures, when the third dimension elements in the physical manner. This then again the element of the development of this entity, showing the potential values necessary for the understanding of Universal Forces as are applicable in the physical world.
10. (Q) [See Par. 7-Q above.] (A) Then, as is seen in that of the next, in the conversation as takes place regarding the changing of the development in mental forces, through training of a physical mind in University courses, with the awakening or reasoning from the conscious mind of the inability to do same and
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attend to business in the same action, yet in the attending to play we find in this the manifestation how that at play we find the laws as pertaining to the every condition desired to be used by entity exemplified and manifested. In the actions on the grounds, in the individual who seems set apart by the colors as worn on field, giving the lesson to the entity that the desires of the heart and of the development of mind not hampered by secular conditions, but when even at play or relaxed from the vicissitudes of labors, the manifestations of the conditions as studied through mental action of mental mind and subconscious forces may be brought to manifestation, and an understanding of same obtained by the individual itself to such an extent as that same may be made into such a way that it may be given to others. These, then, we find, are the lessons: In the study of those relations as exist between the functioning of physical, mental forces, subconscious acting on physical action, and the reasoning or inductive and deductive forces as are manifest in same through study.
11. We are through for the present.