This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 20th day of September, 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.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 12:00 Noon - Eastern Standard Time. Deal, N.J.
1. GC: You will have before you 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 ask you regarding same.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [900]. This we have had here before. Ready for dream.
3. (Q) Morning of September 5, 1926. I was buying Consolidated Gas around Par ($100 per share). It seemed to be going up, altho I saw red sell slips instead of black bug slips. (A) This as the indication, as is seen and as has been experienced by the entity, in the advance, yet with the downward trend, with the upward following, as is seen by the variation in the colors of slips, as is necessary for such changes, according to that consciousness of the entity.
4. (Q) Morning of September 6. N.Y. Central R.R. seemed to be being bought at 130 - 131. (A) Again the same conditions as are seen - advance in rails, though especially, as has been seen, advance in those of the consolidations - such as the C & O, N & W, L & N, Southern, with their variations in the prices - these all subsidiaries or portions of New York Central, see?
5. (Q) I returned to the cigar business and my father appeared. He sent me to some old good customer in N.J. to sell him some Francis Lewis cigars. However, the customer now bought, I found, these very cigars from the N.J. tobacco company and bought in quantity thus I faced the loss of a good customer. I thought of the smaller ones (the city stores) but they brought in so little. The man was friendly with me, but explained that he now couldn't buy the Francis Lewis from me since he purchased them from this larger source. "That is why it is so hard to put one box in each city store," I remarked, "and to make a living at so doing." I was disappointed, but by reason of my friendship for the man I prevailed upon him to buy some of my higher priced goods - i.e. sold him quite a few 10 cent cigars instead of the 5 cent ones. I noticed the beauty of the countryside,
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but felt that my attention must be kept on business and nothing else. Then the change to Biloxi, Mississippi. It seemed a long way to go to sell goods, but my father assured me that, in spite of the expense, it would pay. So I went and upon arriving noted the beauty of the place and I wanted to stop and play. However, it was for business I came and I must stick right to that. I must find my man and sell him, but I didn't know my way around. A map of the streets and places appeared before me, and I noticed one place on the map marked "[2886]." I recalled that it might have been [2886] or someone who told me of a relation who had a store in Biloxi. I sought to look further for my man, but my attention kept focusing itself upon that particular writing, namely: "[2886]." That seemed my man, the place I sought, in spite of my not seeming to understand it. "For business, not for pleasure," my father or the Voice told me. (A) Again we find those forces as are presented to the entity through these visions of the return to those instructions, those assistances and aid as would come to the entity through that correlation of the subconscious forces, as are seen in that presented to the entity through that of the guide's spirit forces as are seen from time to time, and again and again these will come, as the entity has need, desires and uses - for as is seen in the use of any condition, physical, mental, spiritual or what not, same is applicable to be used, and the usage of same becomes more circumspect, or the consciousness of the application of same is within the entity's forces and applicable to the usages to which the entity puts same, so same are in line with that of which, for which, such instructions, such lines, are given.
6. (Q) What business relation does this indicate I should establish with [2886], if any? How and when? (A) Rather that of the relations as will lie between the guide and the self, rather than with [2886], though, as is seen, this is as that of which the entity has had in mind, and with the mind in that attunement the instructions, the experiences, are given through such subconscious forces, that entity may use same from time to time. Just as has been outlined.
7. (Q) Morning of September 7, 1926. My father appeared. Many were in our house. I was attracted to a woman by virtue of sex appeal. When I was a boy she had so attracted and appealed to me. I LEGITIMIZED my relations to her by deserting my own wife and marrying her. I said: "Now it is alright. I am divorced and have married, so my relations are justified." My father denied that. I heard him in the
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bathroom, and when I wanted to get in, I couldn't. I carried on my relations. The scene changed. The moon was shining upon the earth. I saw its rays break through the clouds. Then my father or the Voice spoke: "Redeemers are not meant to go about dreaming and romancing and idling under the moon. The next time you do this, I will take your sight away from you. You will lose your vision!" (A) In this there are seen, as has been given or forewarned in that just as given - through that presentation from the father of those forces through which the mental mind of the entity has been guiding or directing its mental forces as pertaining to various conditions as are seen in the earth's plane - through those relations as are seen - these are of those conditions on which the entity has dwelt in mental forces, and, as is seen through the experience and through that of the Voice, and through that of the action of the father and of relations as are seen, the elements as enter in are as seen, that sex is as of the carnal mind, and of the earth earthy. Then, as applied in that way and manner as lessons, as given, there is seen that there is taken from ANY entity - this entity as well as others - that spiritual insight into the conditions as are of the spiritual nature, through indulgence in carnal conditions. Hence the rule, the lessons as have been given, in being in that way of that as is the showing self to be in the position of not an extremist in any nature or sense, for all force is of one force, but may be carried to the extreme to such an extent as to destroy the insight or the relations as one element of force to another. See?
8. (Q) Wherein then have I erred or sinned? For much time I have not, in myself, countenanced this condition. What, then, is the trouble? (A) Not as a trouble. That rather as the experience to the entity as to how, and in what manner and through what forces such conditions shall be approached in and through every individual, see? Then, these are as lessons to the entity, and as warnings to the entity as to how OTHERS may be warned as respecting such conditions - for, as is seen in the entity itself, through its own physical experience, when the life, the physical life, the material life, the social life is filled with such thoughts, such actions, the spiritual forces become darkened to that mind; yet, as is seen, such RELATIONS, and such CARNAL relations, and such sex appeal, must be a portion of every individual that the imagination of the visions may be broadened to take in every element of that force as is manifest in the material world of spiritual
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gifts. See?
9. (Q) Morning of September 8, 1926. My father and Voice together: "May not the power that gives you the condition also give you the time?" Some conflict or disagreement as I have formed a concept of this, due to past experiences - i.e. that that which is in the realm of Man's making cannot be positively foretold, because that in Man's making becomes a spiritual reality only AFTER it is made - thus the power sees time as a change that ought come following certain other changes, by virtue of that which has already taken place in man's mind. Yet that foresight may suffer a change by man's using his prerogative to change the conditions. If, however, Man has already made up his mind to do something, that something is already done - i.e. is a spiritual reality already. Then the power giving that existing reality is, of course, correct. Yet if Man changes his mind that condition changes time - i.e. the reality becomes another already prevailing condition in causation world. I understand this - i.e. time, yet here is the point my father the Guide, was making, I believe: That altho the Cause may not be able to foresee just what effect causes man is going to use in his external world to bring about external effects, it does know these elements Man is considering and the present direction his mind is taking. Thus it was given me that the rail move would terminate temporarily in 3 - 4 or 5 days, due to market reaction. Had I better heeded I would have saved money - thus my father's seeming aggravation with me, because if any change in this 4 or 5 days had been foreseen it would have been given me. These changes precede their appearance on the stock ticker, so why shouldn't I benefit from this information gained from a real world, to which my own mental efforts have given me access? That is the whole thing - is it not? (A) That is the whole thing - for reasoning with this same condition, let's give that as is seen by man in the mind of that same creative element, and we find that the whole lessons have been given, and are not new, save in how man may apply same through his own individual life - for it has been written, "And when the Sons of God looked on the daughters of men they saw they were fair to look upon, and they took them unto themselves, and God repented that He had made man," see? The application that man, with the portion of God and the portion of man, is of that will and intent that those conditions as are set laws, each element brings its own result - for, as is seen in a physical world, a
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spiritual world, or a spiritual reaction or a physical reaction H20 is ever a certain element, with all of the spiritual forces as may be applied to same, yet same may be mingled with many various other elements in many various forms, many having lesser or greater weight in body or in activity. Same as is seen in spiritual forces, in their activity. Then, that intent or that over balance of any activity gives that same lesson as has been seen through the various experiences as have been given here, and as has been reasoned by this entity, [900], may be applied to self, and self may apply these, through and in that means and manner that has been given to same.
10. We are through for the present.