This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 19th day of December, 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 12:30 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City, N.Y.
1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of [900], of Apt. ..., ... St., N.Y. City, and the dream this body had on the dates which I will give you. You will give the interpretation and lesson 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 some ominous forebodings here from other conditions regarding people in different spheres.")
3. Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [900]. This we have had before. Ready for dream.
4. (Q) Wednesday Night, Nov. 11, while reading Isis Unveiled. Saw streets under construction with the conventional wooden barriers preventing traffic from coming through - indicating "Closed Temporarily." It was night and the red lanterns hung from the wooden barriers. The Voice: "Just so far and no further." (A) In this there is presented a continuation of that as has been given the entity as regarding the subject as is being studied here, and as is seen in this, the entity realizes, in the study of that read, the limitations as placed on individuals in their expansion in the various spheres of endeavor, as is cognizant to this mind. Hence the Voice, "So far and no further" see? Then, the entity should gain this lesson from same, as to how the co-relation of those facts, truths, as is and has been gained by self, is to be co-related by entity with this truth as gained here in that read and the expansion on same, but in that way and manner that there may not be said of same, "So far and no further."
5. (Q) "Maybe I didn't get the significance of the above (A) (Interrupting) "No."
6. (Q) as being the same as Cayce's 'PRESENT', we are through." Anyway, I continued reading and dozing - saw a black streaking mark, such as [drawing of the black streaking mark - a diagonal line.] and the Voice commanded "SUFFICIENT!" (A) In this, as is indicated, as how the mark
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is raised in its position and the indication, as is seen, as how the base of this mark is on the heavy line and that the up turn of same is in the shaded way and manner, shows as to how the elevation of the truth as is gained by entity is to lift many minds aloft.
7. (Q) Now I had, had a big day, but all my days and nights too, for that matter, are full these times. Starting with writing my and [136]'s dreams, I had put in a good day at business, then at purchasing books, then at studying my wonderful reading on my vision of my father and the Light of Him introducing me into 4th dimension life and after dinner had entertained company, and now was reading and trying to study "Isis Unveiled." My day finishes with a chapter read from the Bible, followed by prayer. Substitute dictating to the steno - working towards publication of my message, for the time spent yesterday in purchasing books, and you have my usual day, and evening. I say that in the day time I learn of God, from God and by God in phenomenized form, and the same lessons in a different manner from my spiritual self at night. Thus the Spiritual and Physical are being bridged, that day and night may both be light and no energy is wasted in seeking the knowledge and wisdom of the Oneness of myself with the One that my life's purpose and expression may be identical with the One purpose, whether it be in Spirit or physical life. That is a PLAN of Life with a PURPOSE and a full bill too. But this command and dream means the physical then had, had enough for one day? (A) No. As has been given, the entity was and is to use that as gained to lift up self and others to that more perfect understanding of truths as gained, see? for this (as may be given in comment upon the recommendation of self in service): Be not in that way and manner of condoning the efforts spent, by the fullness of hours applied to an objective, but the manner, intent, purport - the gained consciousness of the inner self gaining that condemnation and appreciation of time spent, as there would come from the spirit within, of "Well done, thou good and faithful servant," for as self is spent in day and night, meditating into the truths as are gained, and the building into self that purpose of the message as is to be given - then the entity is giving self in no unreserved manner, and in this as given, only that the entity may in full accord hear that answer in the quietness of self's thought, "Well done!" for there must be remembered, that the lessons are the co-relation of all thought, in the philosophized form of theology and philosophy, as combined into one mathematical purport of the WHY of the entrance into the spirit plane,
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and the WHY of the giving of a portion of God, manifest in Man, to a world, that Man, through gaining this purport of a physical transition through the world, may gain the better conception of the spiritual world and as to how the laws of the physical world magnify or glorify the condition of man's existence in same, for to this entity there is given the greater vision than has been given to many for ages old, in physical sense, for a purposeful life, well spent in the work of giving aid, succor, to others in their inmost self, is the highest purport man can give fellowman, and in helping the Man is lending self to the Glory of God in Man. See? A wonderful vision, a wonderful thought, a wonderful study! MAKE SELF THAT CHANNEL through which the greater glories of the mental, physical, spiritual and material worlds may manifest, for as has been said, "The silver and the gold is mine, sayeth the Lord, and the cattle on a thousand hills." Then not sacrifice of flesh, of goats or of bullocks, not in the filthy lucre of coin of man's realm, but in the expending of self in the glorification of man's indwelling forces of God's power in the earth's forces, should man extol the glories of God, the Father, for as the Oneness is gained in this great realm, there comes all of the needs of the flesh to accomplish the work as is to be accomplished by an entity with a full, purposeful, oneness of life to give to others.
8. (Q) Thursday Morning, Nov. 12. "It seemed we were all out in the country somewhere - [137], [140], someone else and myself. We were in a little shanty - came out into the open on level ground where the Sun was shining and grass green. [140] said to me from behind: 'Now you and [137] are on even terms.' 'No,' I told her, 'We will never be so. [137] will always have much more money than I.' 'You bet he will,' answered [140]. 'O well, I don't care,' I replied, and as if to verify my sincerity in not envying, but being happy with my life, I saw my Home, which must have represented my ideals of Happiness - Life. In living my ideals do I find happi- ness, at least do I try and am succeeding, just as another tries to find the same in money and physical or material riches and power. Before the God of Truth I lay my gifts as must the servant of Mannon (not [137] here) and let God of Good and Truth judge our gifts, for to him in whose favor He judges, shall He award the gifts for all time. The other must labor on to secure those gifts acceptable." (A) In this the entity has answered self, in the vision and in the questions and truths as are presented and given in the word as heard or felt in vision, for as the various
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lessons are gained, these are given as but experiences of the mental mind, for TRULY must man gain that full conception in a physical manner, that "As a man thinketh in his heart, so IS he," and as these various lessons and experiences are given, and the full satisfaction of the physical mind is gained through these experiences to this entity, in a physical and in a mental manner, the glories in same, the truths in same, the satisfaction of a life well spent in same, becomes the whole of the mental, spiritual and physical forces of entity, and the glory and satisfaction in the use of each and every one as is given becomes, then, the more perfect in their application to the entity, in the various attempts of entity in a mental, in a physical, in a moral, in a social way, to assist and give of self, see? for he that would have must give - GIVE - until it hurts - then GIVE - again. This applying in every sense of the oneness of development in the whole earth, for as is seen and as illustrated in this: When the world was lost in sin and corruption, and Man in his own mind of self-aggrandizement of the desires of flesh, God, in His Infinite Love (though having given every gift unto Man), gives then HIMSELF, TO GO THROUGH this low estate to which man had come, that Man, THROUGH FAITH IN HIM, might yet gain that life eternal.
9. We are through for the present.