This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 15th day of December, 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.
1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of [900], of ... St., N.Y. City, and the dreams with 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 them to you, and you will answer the questions which I will ask you regarding them.
2. EC: Yes. Now, we have the body, the enquiring mind here. This we have had before. The dreams come to the entity in and through those ways and manners as have been given, and may be applied in the life of the entity through those of the mental experience for the entity to apply same in the life. Ready for dream.
3. (Q) Morning of Dec. 13, 1926. It was in ... at my grandmother's home and we were all at dinner. I resented something my mother said or did and argued with her and finally putting a hat (farmer's wide brimmed straw hat) on her head, I said: "O, Ma, we don't need your constant telling us what to do" - etc. Then [137] suddenly interrupted by saying as he turned to me, a spoonful of soup half way to his mouth: "How does one breathe when one can't move and is choked up?" I paid little attention to him at first, not thinking the matter very serious. Finally I noticed the glazed look in his eyes and pained expression on his face. I rushed over to him and picking him up, carried him to a couch. He was paralyzed from the waist down. "We'll fix you up," I encouraged him, as I began to rub his legs desperately, massaging him frantically from the waist down. Then as they came to take him to the hospital, I kissed him saying, "O, my poor dear brother!" They took him to the hospital to have Praeger administer and tend to [137]. (Praeger is a customer and an accountant in reality and not a doctor.) I kept repeating this to them over the phone: "Have Dr. Paul Praeger tend [137]" until finally they heard me. The place or scene seemed changed to an institution of some kind. Then I got Praeger on the phone and asked him what was the matter with [137]. "Stroke of
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apoplexy!" replied Praeger. "My God, in a boy so young," I replied. I saw [137] later, out of the hospital, walking about in a crippled sort of fashion. His head bent and limping, he was a pitiable sight and I felt terrible. "He'll never be balanced, mentally or physically, again," I thought. (A) In this there is presented to the entity, through this vision, emblematical conditions - as the entity has been warned respecting in many ways and manners - also conditions physical that the body should be warned about, or regarding both as to self and to the brother.
First, this is seen - that the old days, or old ways, are considered by the vision - by the place and conditions surrounding those in the vision. As has been given, the mother should and will be ever much of the balance wheel to the entity, and the entity should often be willing and able to take advice concerning material conditions from the entity and thus avoid many conditions in material manner, that would be beneficial to the entity.
Again, physically, there is seen that the brother in this condition of choking - that there has been a weakness in the throat and bronchials as respecting the physical condition. Be warned, then, as regarding the physical health, especially as respecting colds and congestion, with the eliminations in system in that way of not throwing off the poisons. Being warned, then, be forearmed, by using those properties in diet, and in those elements that produce the more profuse or more coordinated eliminations from the body, and thus avoid colds and congestion.
In the emblematical way and manner, there is shown to the entity that there is danger in the entity's self becoming stale, or paralyzed in the mental way of expressing or giving to others that full lesson as has been set for self - or take heed in those admonitions as have been given: Make haste slowly - and, as has again been given that in due TIME the physical will admit the working of the forces - for, as the Lord has given often, "WAIT!" on the Lord - for, as is seen, with the entity's forces spended in the physical manner, and without the entity taking the proper elements of guarding against those very conditions as may bring the materialist to say, "With the PHYSICAL abated, with the physical in strain, what is all the mental WORTH, without the ability to in the physical manner give that as is seen?" Then for the entity the lesson, that: Play as well as labor. The emptying of self mentally is as necessary as is
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the proper eliminations from the system to destroy used and refuse matter, for to force the mental when the physical or the mental becomes stale by worry, or by conditions that prevent the full action of the whole coordinated spiritual element, is to bring destructive forces that are as abhorrent as the conditions seen in one of a physical life, in young and in the prime of life, brought down by those conditions as are viewed. Then apply, both materially, mentally - physically, morally, spiritually - the lessons to the entity, for both are seen and are here given that all may apply same - for more and more, as is seen, direct comes the lessons to the entity, and more and more they are seen to be of one force, of one source, with the physical BODY giving the variations, or PHASES of the manifesting of that one element.
4. (Q) We were having fire drill in what seemed a school. Horace Block said to me, as we stood in line: "But, [900], you don't seem to want to do anything in case of fire." I said that I did and volunteered to put the fire sign on the roof tanks in case of fire, which was the hardest of all, as well as the most perilous of all tasks. He (Block) found that satisfactory and as the fire bell rang we all filed out: I led Block down the stairs in a hurry, taking about six steps at a time. Yet even so I found it hard to keep up with the main body and we lost them in the rush. Then Block went out, but I searched and felt the only way was to take a chance, and went on to the bottom. There I met Block and the rest and as they felt the work volunteered to do was sufficient, everything seemed O.K. yet I felt that they were taking advantage of me to make me stop to do this work in an emergency such as this. (A) Again these emblematical conditions through the vision of the lesson as has just been given, and, as is seen and may be easily viewed by the entity from the same viewpoint, the lack of the full consistency of the entity as respecting duties to self and to ALL OTHERS, concerning even person's or self's own safety, as well as that of others, and the feeling from within self that others would stop or hinder for the entity is the lack of full consistency within the entity's own self. Gain, then, that FULL consciousness of necessity of complete consistency with every effort, whether material or spiritual - for no one in this as seen attempts to gain any control or to hinder the entity - except for the entity's own good and own welfare!
5. We are through for the present.