This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 24th day of July, 1925, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [900].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:20 P. M. Dayton Savings Time. Deal, N.J.
1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of [900], of ... Road, Deal, N.J., and the dreams this body had on the dates which I will give you. You will give the interpretation and lesson to be gained from same, as I read same to you.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body and the enquiring mind of same here, with dreams as have been had by this body. Many such we have had here before. The manifestations that are coming to this body-mind are the gradual developments as are being experienced, thought out, sought out, and experienced now to the individual through emblematical forms as are given to the body, and many such may be used in giving the more perfect understanding to those who would study such phenomena as is being sought and studied by this entity. Ready for dream.
3. (Q) July 22, 1925. Saw golf ball, stick and golf course. I recognized the 18th hole of the golf course and mentioned this fact to myself. Also saw black and red squares of a checkerboard. Words as follows: "All in one." (A) These, as we see, are presentations in the emblematical way to the individual, as given. The ball representing, then, the man, or a man's life. The club, the way; and the field or course, the world, in which same is shown. The ball, then, the word of the spirit forces, the man driving same over the course, where it will, and with the knowledge of same and experience in same, be able to make the 18th hole, or game, in the better time. This, then, the representation of the oneness in all and the all in one. One as necessary to the other as the one is to the other, and the recognition of the conditions, positions, of each element being the manner in which the mind of this entity is grasping the conditions as are being presented to the body. As is seen in the checkers, this in squares, showing color and a field, all, as it were, a game, with the necessary appurtenance for the course to be one, all being one and the same. As is necessary for the field of the checker, as is necessary for the field of the golf course, same being,
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then, represented as in one, and the force driving such to its final coursebeing that spirit of each as is manifested in the force itself.
4. (Q) July 23rd. Saw myself and another in a coffin, buried in a grave or beneath the ground. We both were alive, moving, kicking with our feet. I sort of sensed or felt without actually going over the passage in the Bible, where the beggar was "up there" and the greedy rich man, selfish and evil, was down below "down there". The only words that might express my feeling would be as follows: "I'm dead now and buried. Let's see what that "up there" and "down there" that Jesus taught means. I turned to look at my companion kicking in his coffin and noticed the dense earth above us, but I thought "This isn't earth at all but just a form of the great spirit force, and behold the earth opened up, as did the coffin, and only little dots, round circular dots, through which the sunlight shone, appeared, and all seemed ablaze with light and joy. I flew up into space, winging my way about. "Hold on" I said to myself, "this isn't right. I shouldn't be in physical body and flying around. It ought to be my soul or spiritual body." I noticed he down in the coffin. Looked about in my ecstasy and words came, "Yes, the freedom of the Universe is yours." (A) This, as we see, is the manifestation of the development of the minds of this entity. These conditions, these truths, that as pictured to the mental forces of the body as such, are the truths as exist in the spiritual forces, and as these are brought to the mental vision in the manner that may be interpreted by the mind and the consciousness of the condition, becomes apparent to the elements necessary of the union of the forces of spiritual and mental, through the various changes that came to bring about such, the truths are made known to the body, as we have given. These may be used as the illustrations of the words as were given in that parable of the spirit forces as represent Abraham as good, Dives in Hell as the bad, for the truth makes free indeed.
5. (Q) I was on a grass plot or oval with many others. Things didn't seem just right, although I can't recall just why. (A) This condition, as we see, represented that intent and purpose of the individual to see and know a condition in a well rounded element, for each, for a perfect circle, must all sides be equaled to each other, and in this we find, in the oval forces, that which does not give this perfect understanding of same, for with this condition we bring about this ever distressing force as not understandable, for we become, as it were, lopsided in the expressions and
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findings in same.
6. (Q) I came to a University and sat on the steps. Someone I knew came out of the University and pointing to his hair said, "Look how white it has turned." He then laughed and said, "You'd think I grew older in there. I'm really still young and very much alive." I noticed the white hair, yet his youth and life.
(A) In this we find again the entity's forces as are manifesting themselves, wavering and weighing conditions with self's understanding. As approaching the University, this we find representing the learning, the understanding of the body. The taking the place outside, as not necessary for further development, save in an application of the understanding as has been attained. In the one coming from, with the appearance of study and age, as has been made manifest in the hair as grown on head, this showing, then, that the necessities of life-giving flow come not always from that of the gray haired, or premature age by concentration. Rather the full-rounded life of the thinker, with the attainment of the understanding of every phase of lives.
7. We are through.