This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 7th day of August, 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 11:30 A. 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 date which I will give you, and you will give the interpretation and the lessons to be gained from each of these, as I read same to you.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the mind, the enquiring elements of same here. These, as we have had before, with dreams that are presented, give the body that experience necessary for the full understanding of truths, that they may be a comprehensible fact to the individual, the mind, the body, of [900], and as we see, these are presented that the body may gain that necessary understanding as to be used for self and for others. Do not, however, make that mistake of becoming so self-centered in the way of making the material successes that the real truth is lost, for these would produce detrimental elements to the body through the very forces that would aid and give the best understanding to the body-mind. Ready for dream.
3. (Q) Early Wednesday morning, August 5, 1925, at home in Deal. Was on the roof of a building high in the air, looking up at the sky. "What is God and Who is He?" I questioned. "He is the FORCE behind everything," came words in reply. "He is Spirit Element?" I asked, puzzled. "He is the Force, the Being behind the Element," again the voice within replied. "Then I am God - I am Spirit." "Yes, He is the Force of the Spirit." "I can't see Him move though - I can see no physical demonstration as the moving of matter without my doing the moving?" I queried, as I pushed a Wall and it wouldn't move and I wondered if this force would move the wall, thus giving a physical demonstration to sense mind. In response it began to RAIN, and I saw the individual drops, then the downpour as a whole. "Yes," I said, "I am God - Spirit." Then a woman said to me. "I have something that will move alone." "Let me see," I replied. She brought over an overshoe or rubber, put it down and I put my hand over it and it moved towards the edge of the roof, but no further. "You see," she said, "It won't go over the
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edge." Then I moved my hand back and the shoe followed, then forward again to the edge of the roof. "It is like my Wabash R.R. stock," I remarked, "Goes just so high and no higher (shoe to edge of roof) then down to let everybody out (shoe backwards), then up again (shoe back to edge)." I thought of my stock and reflected on its going down to let them out. "That is alright," I said. (A) This, as we see, the conditions as are presented in the mind study of the individual, [900], and given in an emblematical manner that shows both the action of the spirit forces in a material world, with a material or physical reasoning of and towards same, also the action of those of elemental of the physical, as are shown. These, as we see, are crossed, and hence the warning as is given: Do not let such forces become so self-centered, see? self-centered - not lacking of the truth being truth in itself but self-centered as to bring detrimental forces to self, for as the house represents the top, the pinnacle, of thought and understanding as is acquired by the individual to the present time, having reached through experience of such manifestations of the force as to reach those conclusions as bring the entity to be one with the force, one with that Spirit, that all prevailing Spirit of the Higher Forces, as is called in material world God, that creative force of all material and of the power of material to create force within itself; this becomes recognized, then, to the individual and how the individual is a part of same. Then, as we see as the warning, as turned toward that of attempting to make that force a force that may be used for a material demonstration, that would mean only in self a manifestation of the force, see? In the movement, then, as is presented by woman presenting some object that may be moved, the weak forces presenting, then, to the entity that which might become a destructive force to the entity, were the entity to apply same in a channel wholly for selfish motives. The reasoning, then, as to how same is showing and is giving the understanding to the entity, is but the reasoning or, as it were, taking stock with self as to how self may apply same with the use of the forces as are being presented. These then, as we have given, the lesson is as this:
Use that force in the way as the Spirit directs. Guide, guard and keeping those elements that would give self to the service and not expect service to self from forces to which self should give service. These, then, as we see, are becoming more and more of the manifestations of conditions that may be used, see? These may be applied, yet these may
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be made to serve self, but self must serve to attain same; while these from, as we see, the physical condition to which the entity is attached, in physical ways, these also show the way in which same may be made a stumbling block to self, through downpour, through moving to edge, through moving back, as has been presented. Study well, see? SERVE GOD, and His ways will become the service for the individual. To force the service of God to individual uses is error.
4. (Q) I had Goldstein on the telephone and said: "How do you ever expect to make money if you are always long of stock? Get out once in a while." He mentioned some stock of [137]'s - that which [137] is specialist in. "Well," I answered, "[137] sells some stock to see if he can't depress it, (speaking of some stock which [137] seemed to be specialist in and which seemed in dream to be selling at 103) and then or in that manner bring in some selling." At this [137] seemed to get angry. "I shouldn't have said that," he claimed. (A) This, then, again that same condition and element as has been presented in the former, only given to the individual mind in a different aspect of same, that the body may attain the lesson, the truths, as go with same. Then, classify, view same, both from the same channel. Not that any exceptions, not that any condemnations are being brought to the individual for the usage of the truths, for has it not been given "manifest same through self's application, that we may see that the law is that of the Divine?" Yet these are given as the warnings, that they may be used in the correct channels, and making self, then, that channel of the blessings that come through compliance with the laws that allow the individual minds to partake of those acceptable ways of God in the material world. See?