This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 23rd day of September, 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 2:00 P. M. Eastern Standard 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 lessons to be gained from each of these, as I read same to you, and you will answer the questions which I will ask you regarding same.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind here. These we have had before. The dreams as have come to the body we find are some of the developments, some of the correlations of physical and subconscious forces, that give the experience to the body-mind, that lessons may be gained into the study of life's phenomena, as exercised in the material world through spiritual forces, as are manifest in all life. Ready for dream.
3. (Q) Saturday Morning, September 12, 1925, at home in Deal. A new telephone instrument was installed at my desk, and if properly dialed, one turn could reach Detroit from New York. However, great care had to be taken in the use of this instrument, as the dial consisted of several divisions or layers, and if these divisions were not used all together, Detroit could not be reached, rather the instrument would go wrong if the dials were separately used in a confused manner. I went upstairs to tell Sidney Wormser about the instrument. He showed me many of his - one in particular, like a telescope. "It is not your instruments I am talking about, Sidney," I said, "It is your use of them." (A) This, as we find, is that interpreted, the new forces as are being put into the hands of the body, the mind, of [900], and the lessons as is seen in the telling of the one who is or has been as a criterion for particular operations, shows the advancement as is coming, does come, has come, to the body, [900], and the entity then should, as is seen, use the care, the attention, necessary for the correct operation of those forces as the entity may apply in daily life and in secular forces, and in an understanding manner. Then, study those conditions and use same aright, that the goals may be
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reached by the entity, see? for, as we would give in plain or in secular manner, the telephone and the new arrangement meaning the new manner in which the entity may gain information from various places, to Detroit meaning a given center, a given force, a given center of commercialization, and the various ways of using same to prevent or to cause entanglements is seen and must be recognized by the individual, for with the correct use of same good way come, with the improper the turmoil, the distress, the incomplete connections, see?
4. (Q) Then I saw a girl I thought I remembered. We seemed to be in a big room with many people now. I said to her: "You don't know me anymore." "Let me see - yes I do," she replied, "You are the boy who went through Columbia University." "Yes," I confirmed, rather flattered, "but, (kind of sheepishly, although for no real reason) I didn't go all the way through. Do you understand how to do that?" I asked, indicating a ladder and ability to climb it. "O yes," she replied, "I know all about that," and she proceeded to lead the way by climbing the ladder, which seemed to lead up the side of the house. I followed her and we climbed to the top, then swung horizontally on the ladder across the roof. Then we started down the ladder head first. At the first floor window (top floor) she entered, and the idea was to somersault back to the ladder again and continue the upside down descent. It seemed a situation similar to a dream I had recently regarding [137] and the ladder. I grew frightened and managed to tumble into the room through the window, but was too frightened to go out of the window again onto the ladder. I descended by means of the stairway, taking a couple of steps at a time. At each landing I noticed the open door to a little flat. "That is the advantage of a home," I reflected, "Funny all the doors are open - but I guess they do that in a tenement house. It's mighty fine to have a nice home!" Back in the room again I said, "I have to make a train. Isn't it funny - the 8:20 on the (?) R.R. gets in ahead of the 8:05 on the (?) R.R.?" (A) This, as we see, the continuation of the usage of those lessons as are being gained, and in the application of same we find the entity with that force of learning, as is seen, known, acknowledged by others as having been attained by same, gives the incentive for others to follow. Then, as the ladder is mounted, this showing the ascent to which the entity may attain, yet with fear as is seen in the following of the form of the figure that leads the way. This then is to be studied and as the subconscious mind reasoned with self in the ascent and descent, yet as is seen, the venture
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must be made for the entity to gain or to put in use that gained in the conscious or subconscious or cosmic forces, for all force is as the one, and the application being the difference or change as is given to the various force, see?
5. (Q) Then I was playing croquet with my Father. I had only about 3 more wickets to get through to complete the game.
"Almost through," I said. But no, there were still 3 hard wickets to make. Then I saw a R.R. train pull in right in front of me. (A) This, as we see, a combination of the various forces, of the various truths, as are being manifested before the entity as an experience in the various phases of the phenomenized life and given in emblematical forms that the entity may better gain the lessons as are to be seen in these.
In the first we find that of the physical in a physical action, with goals to be made, with wickets to be run, with the spirit force as is manifested through the vision of the guide with the entity itself. The attempted effort is seen to be hard, see? And the ball representing the world forces as apply in the one Universal force. The train, again coming to that of material, meaning these forces, through these channels - Railroads - Stocks, there should come those helps to the entity in material forces, yet all must be guided, guarded, directed aright, for we come to the same injunction as may be seen in that as given: "How hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven," for as would be the interpretation as given, how hard for him who would satisfy the desires of flesh to understand and interpret spiritual forces so as to apply same in a physical world.
6. We are through for the present.