This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach. Va., this 11th day of October, 1926, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [900].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mr. [900], Conductor, Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 11:00 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City.
1. [900]: You will have before you the body and enquiring mind of [900], present in this room. You will first give an interpretation of dreams I shall give you, and then you shall turn to the aiding of this body in gaining that mathematical and scientific knowledge necessary to continue his manuscript, or the book that he is now writing, that he may give in the simple manner he seeks to give, the information of creation of the divine to other minds seeking like knowledge.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [900]. This we have had here before.
3. Dreams come to mean more and more to the entity, in the light of information and knowledge as is gained, and the consciousness of the concept as is presented to the entity through this manner of the subjugation of the material and the cosmic consciousness and subconscious and superconscious give experiences to the entity of the field of vision of the soul mind, or of the subconscious forces answering those questions in the body conscious mind of the entity. Ready for dream.
4. (Q) Last night, while reading, the number 75. (A) This, as we see, making then that combination of numbers in three, the whole and the portion, and as the indication gives, that of the sudden change in conditions to the changed or lower levels, with the sudden breaking back to then higher levels, see?
5. (Q) That is of stock prices? (A) Of stock prices.
6. (Q) Does it refer to any particular stock or just general? (A) General.
7. (Q) Referring to immediate conditions, then? (A) We will find that there will be first the slowness, with the gradual breaking off, with a flurry in same, and again the gradual raising or coming up, see? as is indicated in three.
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8. (Q) Friday Night on the train to Virginia Beach. I saw Warner Brothers in two relationships - that is, the stock. One in relation to the number 47, and then in relation to that given me by the Voice, as follows: "I tell you that the vitaphone is an example of life." (A) In this there is seen the twofold condition. The 47 the breaking down, and the Voice that as of the spiritual force as is exemplified in the vitaphone operations, in its material or commercial manner, representing spiritual elements or conditions. Meaning, then, the two-fold study the entity may see in same - 47 being two, see? the weakness.
9. (Q) Meaning, then, a reaction downward, taking place probably now, but not to the 47 mark? (A) No, for this is only as the emblematical condition as is seen - for in this stock there is seen, while weaknesses occur, some will take advantage of same - Nottingham - Notthinberg - Notting something - advantage of same in gaining control of the stocks as near as possible, see?
10. (Q) Now to return to the manuscript and the mind that is breaking up into the words that compose the manuscript. (A) The manuscript [is] developing in that manner and way as has been given, and as the body-conscious mind gains the fuller concept of those truths as respecting life and its purpose, as respecting creation and its continuation in and before men, this interpretation through same by the entity (through manuscript, see?) will be given more and more, bringing better and better an understanding to many. In that phase of the Creative Energy as is to be presented - now in the next phase, when Clem enters that stage of the physical condition wherein the Universal Forces are opened for the physical conscious mind to view, these may be well to follow in their order. In the beginning there is seen that that Creative Energy, taking all things in that collective and individual mass, bringing through that action of energy in creative force on same, in the nature of each element's relation one to another in same, and in individuality, bringing all then to that point of its returnability, as it were, through the action of Spirit Energy in same, to its various forms, and in the creative force as manifest in man's appearance, that representative of the Godhead made manifest in this earth or material plane, with the abilities of the Whole, as is yet given existence, and with that added portion of God to become One with that whole mass, then we find how man becomes the one given that charge, "Be fruitful, multiply," SUBDUE the earth - giving then to man that of the representative force in
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material plane of the representative of the Godhead or Creative Energy, with that ability to control same through that same force in which first Creative Energy given, plus the will's force manifest in material basis, for the combination of these masses, in group and in individual form, to create in a manifested form and manner. In the error comes that that man's will became that to supply the desire of flesh, rather than the will of that Creative Energy. Hence the builded forces as begun to be misunderstood, mis-interpreted, as to the purposes in life - being builded, then, in both the concrete and the absent forms in life. Present this, see? for we then find how, through this same law for it is law, with its various presentations in the combinations of atom or of vibratory force, or of gaseous force, or the SPIRIT element as guides either. Becoming, then, the heterogeneous and the NEGATIVE forces in same, bringing both to that element of how that in the Creative Energy, MIND the Builder, see?
11. (Q) Will you give us, then, first, a definition of evolution, in a few words, such as Spencer gave in 1872, and such as [900] is struggling to give in this year? (A) The conditions present themselves to the mind that views this as given, in this manner. Then, evolution, that form of the various conditions as combine themselves from the various forces as are manifest in the material plane into that ability of the combination of the various forms from one mass to another, in the various kingdoms of that force first given off by the first mind energy, or the All Creative Force, or the changing from the heterogeneous forces to that of the ELEMENTAL forces, with its abilities to create within that as it propagates from one to another, see?
12. (Q) A certain kind or developed creative energy manifests in the heterogeneous integrated phase as matter, and another kind, of the same principle, manifests as animal. (A) Correct, see? for just as the divisions as has been given, and as has been shown, how that when any energy that creates one force is brought together in that same force, the same force or energy is created, whether animal, whether vegetable, whether mineral, or what not. Each being a phase of that first Creative Energy, with man the highest representative of that Energy manifest in the material or earth plane.
13. (Q) Explain the development or evolutionary process in the first principle by which that kind of principle is concentrated to invert itself into matter, and another kind stored to become integrated into instinct, or animal, and
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lastly the same process manifesting another kind of creative activity, as man. (A) This may only be done through the mind turning self to an introspective condition, and first ASSUMING conditions exist, for the finite mind to gain this conception, see? for we have an energy - or, as has been given, we have a flesh of birds, of beast, of one energy, of one nature, one of another - each propagating, as has been set forth from the first - yet we come back to the first same principle: What created the first energy, or what IS the Creative Energy, or God? Then, we do not set that energy as a super man, more than the energy of heat, rather than that of animal or of tissue, or of any element, [is] able to create or propagate itself for each has INNATE within, from the first concept, that ability of creative forces, see?
14. (Q) Then, the intellect, as Bergsen says, must do a hand spring and transcend itself to find the essence of its own self. (A) Must turn itself inside out, as it were, see? for it must become introspective, rather than outro [outer?] or extrospective [extroversive], see?
15. (Q) But this principle, in the first two degrees - matter and animal - is constantly repeating its integrating and disintegrating process. In man similarly, yet how does this process prove exceptional to that phase of man, or that entity of creative force that does NOT repeat this activity? (A) For man [was] given that ability, with will, to become One with the Creative Energy, made a little higher than the other energies, yet combining all, see?
16. We are through for the present.