This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 7th day of May, 1926, in accordance with request made by self - [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 12:40 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 dreams 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 the body, the enquiring mind, [900]. This we have had here before. The dreams, the visions, and the conditions in the metal mind of the body, are as those as have been outlined. Ready for dreams.
3. (Q) Tuesday Night, May 4, while reading. Voice: "Now you will go 2 or 3 points lower, but don't get out too fast." (A) This is as the subconscious mind correlating, with the body consciousness, those conditions as respecting the condition of the market quotations, that which the entity has been studying, and is as seen - that while the condition will be slow - that is, trading slow, yet even with the slow trading, or small exchange or buying, that a firmness is seen or held in same in the prices; yet falling a little - one to two points, yet there will be seen the advance. This a general condition, see?
4. (Q) Voice: "When you put on the gray suit" - (A) This as the condition of when such conditions will come to pass, as has been in the mind of the entity as regarding those conditions, respecting the meeting, conversation, the conditions as might exist between the entities, [900] and those whom the entity has been considering, and the time when this will come about will be when the entity puts on the gray suit. Again an answer, as it were, from the subconscious to the conscious, or body conscious mind, see? These conditions, as have been presented in this way and manner to the entity, are as those of which the entity has been studying as to find within the consciousness of self when the subconscious mind is speaking and when the body conscious mind is reasoning, and the answer comes from body conscious in this, and in these two instances as are shown and given here, the entity, by retrospection, by viewing the
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happenings and the conditions as have come to pass, these are as reasonings of the subconscious, or the subconscious ANSWERING the questioning of the body conscious, as to "May I see and know," see?
5. (Q) Voice: "Have a trial balance." (A) This again a presentation of the conditions in which the entity is rather to bring a trial balance with these conditions as have been presented, rather than that of a trial balance as respecting books or ledger, see? A trial balance here is, as we see, from the subconscious mind again reasoning or answering the conditions in the body consciousness of the individual, and is, as it were, giving this: As the entity draws, materially, trial balances for the conditions as are gained, lost, or as these physical conditions for the gain of the material body are seen by the drawing of the trial balance, so may the body consciousness draw within self those very conditions which the entity has been reasoning, as it were, with self - a trial balance of WHAT has been the GAIN by the entity in the study of self, in the study of those conditions that represent the manifestations of spirit force in the material world; WHAT do these mean materially to the entity now? Have these become as a loss, or are these as a gain? and the entity may draw this trial balance by seeing that in the life of the entity itself, that which this thought, this study, this reasoning, this introspection, this delving into the inmost conditions, as it were, with this analytical mind of the entity, that which may be set as gain and as loss, and much will be found the gain, even more than there has been in dollars and cents in the ledger, see?
6. (Q) Wednesday Morning, May 5. Voice: "Southern R.R. 117." (A) Again we come back to these same conditions as have been presented as regarding this individual stock - that with the general conditions that are to be brought to the market, with the settling of many affairs, with the refusal of the commission to allow certain combinations, and with the reports as of dividends and of the conditions from the rail in this particular section, there will be seen that this individual stock is to again come to the front, as an advance to near this point. Be around the 28th, see? 7 and 1 are 8 - May -
7. (Q) I was entering the subway station and had nothing to read on my way down on the train, so I stopped at a news stand to purchase the March edition of a magazine called "The Cambridge." I turned to an article on "Environment" and experienced (in vision) that explained or referred to in the article. I felt a stream of steam like force, in
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suspension, so to speak, and entering in a steady stream into my mind. This, then, I reasoned, made me the kind and the thing I was, or made me the variation or type of the One Substance that I manifest daily in corporeal form. This fitted me into certain other like manifestations - i.e. dovetailed me to certain environment - i.e. fitted me to certain parents, for example. Environment then is based on the variation of the One Substance - each variation fitting into other variations that supply the needs of the whole. As this process proceeds, I may, by using my prerogative of Will, change the variation of my composition - of my real self, to better fit me for another environment. In other words, my mind is the maker of my environment, for according to the characteristics or viewpoint, understanding and control it achieves, do I make myself fitted for one or another variation of spiritual activity. The change or variation is of my changing subconscious self that manifests this change in the different environment sought in the next incarnation into this corporeal form of the fixed and ever the same spiritual activity. For example, if I make my mind that which best fits the form of spirit action that manifests in physical form of tropical countries, I will acquire or dissolve into this variation of spiritual activity and return to the plane of physical manifestation in this form of phenomonized spirit action, called tropical. This does not mean that because I live in a tropical country I acquire this mental or spiritual development - rather if I live in such an environment and overcome its seeming barriers or obstacles I fit my mind for another environment or another form of phenomenized spiritual activity that fits my merited development of mind. The ideal then is that mind that may manifest its natural perfection regardless of any spiritual variation - thus is it One with Mind of the Creator, from whom the Spiritual Creative Activity emanates in perfect composition, whether in one variation (environment) or another. Environment and inheritance fall back on the same study of consciousness, or evolution as some choose to call it. We are what we make of our developing consciousness or mind, and those characteristics the SOUL acquires fits it into corresponding variations of the One Soul of the Universe. Environment and inheritance, then, are but sections of a process - cross section viewpoints of a process in which a portion of the Whole, embracing every every faculty and power of the Whole, develops from an unconscious Self in the Whole to a CONSCIOUSNESS OF SELF AND OF ALL THE FACULTIES OF SELF, thus making us, a portion, alive to the powers of the Whole,
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capable of enjoying the creative expansion of these faculties, one with the Whole, yet not be the Whole. We become conscious of our creative powers being equal to the One Mind, yet also finding that equality in our self consciousness - not in any prerogative to oppose or act differently from the all embracing One. I become conscious of being that which my Creator is, of using my own faculties to accomplish what my Creator is doing, yet am limited in scope, to my Creator, which is unlimited in creative activity so long as the bounds of the true perfect nature of the Creator is never exceeded. Physically this means I am unlimited in creative manifestations - of the Universe in infinite form, of physical achievement in finite form, so long as I manifest in harmony to the purpose and nature of the Universe, or in finite so long as I manifest the pure and good creative purpose and composition of my real self. What would I? To create or express in terms of creation, the power that dwells within? What is stopping me? Because I may not express the power of the moon, stars and elements? All in its season - such shall be mine, for it has been so promised. Yet, what have I on hand? The corporeal and physical form of the elements that compose the Universe? Very well, I'll manifest myself - these elements in corporeal form. I'll wager many a soul seeks the corporeal medium of spiritual activity to do just that, cognizing this opportunity missed in the spirit environment that dissolution caused the consciousness to merge into. Then I'll build and build and build and who shall destroy the city of my mind or its manifestation in terms of writing, invention (radio) or what not. Correct? (A) Correct. This, as we see, is as an exposition (or dissertation) on that as has been put by many in the various forms of the attempts to give the real evolution, hereditary and environment, and, as is seen by the illustrations, and as is felt from within, these are but one, and are as the various phases or forms of the manifesting Spirit Force in the material world. Of same there is often gathered those conditions as bring to pass the various elements. Hence, as the entity sees and gains by this, often has there been given the entity this injunction: Keep all in one. Let not self become exaggerated by one individual phase of the manifested force as is expressing or manifesting itself in spirit form through the mind BUILDING force of the entity, else there is, as is seen here, with one phase of these various conditions EXCLUDED, there comes that which will bring as an unrational, [irrational?] or unbalanced condition to the whole structure [Wife [136] divorced him in
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the early 1930's, regarding [900] "as a man who went off balance and was no longer a responsible person."]; yet, as is seen, in the infinite forces as are manifested in the material world, each and every element, each and every individual, each and every CONDITION, dovetails, as it were, one within another, and so long as these laws of the infinite forces are kept in obeisance, the entity, the mind, the subconscious, the soul building force, may attain to the various manifested forces of each element, of each individual force, of ALL as a whole, when it is ONE within the Whole, see?
8. (Q) Explain what is called "Memory" in terms of subconscious or spiritual development. [See [3744] series.] (A) As has been given, as is seen, MEMORY becomes the thought, and thought becomes memory - that is, as the various experience of an ENTITY (this in the term of the spiritual, of the physical, of the soul entity, see? not as a physical entity meaning of body and mind and physical being, but of the soul entity, the spiritual entity, which is comprised of the subconscious, the spiritual entity, and the superconscious mind), as is seen, see? as of THIS entity, gains the various experiences; for only through experiences does the BUILDING come in MIND, see? for, as is seen, by comparison does the building take place - that is, as memory is thought, THOUGHT is MEMORY, and BUILDING one upon the other. This is spiritual thought, spiritual memory.
9. We are through for the present.