This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 28th day of June, 1926, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [900].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Dr. T. B. House.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 12:30 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. Deal, N.J.
1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of [900], of ..., 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 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]. The dreams as we see as come to the body are of one of the various phases of presented experiences, or of conditions as are weighed or seen through the subconscious forces of the body. Ready for the dream.
3. (Q) June 25 or morning of June 26. I seemed in some classroom with a group watching a blackboard for the marking up of the opening prices for the stock market. It seemed something was out of order - some trouble or something such that I could not get quotations in the ordinary continuous manner given on a ticker - thus the improvised blackboard. We awaited the opening which, when given, indicated Patent Leather Stock, which I held too much of, opened DOWN ten points, following a tremendous rise to 1150 or 1240 per share. It had this rise and I bought it at the top price and now being split up 5 shares of new for 1 old, the stock opened at $220 - ten points down and I was distracted. I also owned some cheaper stock called "patent leather, pulverized" and this held about the same as my cost price. I went to an older man for advice on Patent Leather and he told me it was a good stock and would go higher. I remarked that it was down 10 points from the top and he replied that I bought it high, but even at that it would go much higher later on. Yes, later on, I thought - later summer or early fall possibly, but in the meantime I will be wiped out. (A) In this there is presented to the entity that correlation between the mental conscious mind and the subconscious mind, those of the body conscious forces as have been carried in same for the time being, as to conditions as regarding the stock market and of conditions
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in general, and, as is viewed and as is seen and known by the entity, the blackboard, the schoolroom, the watching of the numbering of same, is this presented, as it were, as a lesson to the entity, and for the entity's study and consideration. That is, whereas there are certain stocks - not a specific one is seen here, but as a general condition as has been viewed, and as lessons have been given to the entity from time to time - but whereas there have been those conditions in which the entity has often found that, through the flurry of the excitement of conditions, the panicky feeling has come to the entity of the inability to meet the various conditions, that there is found that, with the counsel of one as is seen in the vision, there comes the reassurance of the position as is held by the entity, both as regarding stocks and as conditions in general in the mind of the entity. Then, rather the lesson, as is seen, should be that the entity should take into consideration all the various experiences as have been exercised by the mental abilities of the entity, the lessons from the experience of the physical conditions as have existed, and also the lessons from the subconscious forces to the entity, that the entity may take advantage of conditions, rather than allowing conditions to overcome that within the mind of the entity to such an extent as to cause this panicky or unstable feeling within self; for, as is seen, while stocks show the decline, there will be as sudden the climbing up again, in the general direction, specifically in motors and in oils.
4. (Q) Mr. Straight called me for margin on my stock account. I was distracted, but clapped him on the back good-naturedly and said: "I like you anyway." We went out and watched the stock ticker together. (A) This, as it were, a continuation of those conditions as have been experienced by the entity, in that as is just seen regarding the leathers: That the entity finds that, rather than becoming panicky, or undetermined as to the course to pursue, that taking conditions as they exist, and meeting them one by one, they serve rather than undermine the entity's position, in mental, in physical, in spiritual, in every way of life; for to look forward to some depression, rather than to meet the needs of the day and the hour, is to forebode that which would be detrimental to the entity's best interest in every way and manner; for, as may be considered in the conditions as are seen in one who considers the elementals, and the conditions as are existent in everyday life: To become panicky, or become undermined by seeming forebodings, is to weaken one's own strength to
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meet the needs of the day, for well was it said: "Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin, yet Solomon in all his glory [was] not arrayed like one of these." Taking thought of the morrow adds not to the stature of today. Meet those conditions as arise, for tomorrow will have its own cares. We are through for the present.