This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 16th day of March, 1927, 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 12:10 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 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 them to you, and you will answer the questions I will ask you regarding same.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, of [900]. This we have had here before. Ready for dream.
3. (Q) Sunday morning, Feb. 27, 1927. I beheld a great advertisement in electric lights shining out on Broadway. It said: "The substance of matter and of mind is one and the same thing." Then I added that the difference between matter and animal is that the former is a materialized changed form of this substance, whereas animal is this substance organized to become materially manifested as mind. That the difference between animal and man is that the former organization's development is confined to the section of the process of the substance that becomes changed into a materialized form, whereas the organization of man mind includes in the materialized form a development gained in all the other sections of the process of this substance. (A) In this the entity sees - as is emblazoned - that of the body mind and the subconscious mind reasoning, as it were, together - giving to the entity, through this conscious force, in this subjugated state, or vision, or dream, that verification of the studies in which the entity finds self engaged, and is as the lesson. This truth, and the understanding of same, should be emblazoned on the minds and hearts of people, even as such lights, such conditions, give to those on this thoroughfare the knowledge, the understanding, of what is to take place from within, see? Then, as applying same, the entity finds that the whole lesson, then, is that as has been given. All matter is as one matter. All time as one time, and the various conditions as are presented in that of the material plane, is as to the rate of its vibratory force as is set in
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motion, and its portion of that first Creative Energy that impels its own propagation, in time, in space, in the material form and manner, and is of man's - the highest created Creative Energy in the material plane - the set spaces by man.
4. (Q) We have then this hypothesis provable in one's consciousness by the introspective method: "The substance of matter and mind is one and the same thing." Working out this hypothesis we have the above stated conditions of matter - animal and man, and the following conclusions all subject to the same method of proof: "At transition (called death), that inclusion in the mind of man that involved as an organization in the other sections of the creative process of this one substance, separates from the materialized section to become part of other sections of that process - i.e. becomes part of the Universal Forces that compose a whole and harmonious universe." This is the hypothesis, working out of it a conclusion that must be driven home to the mind of everyone who would find some truth in the whence and whether of life - of its mysteries. The rest all follows. Correct? (A) Correct - and this is as to be remembered with same: That of the material kingdom remains material. That of the spiritual kingdom remains spiritual. MAN develops the soul in that material experience as to ITS plane of existence. Like the animal, the body, that as dust to dust - and as the body of the beast dust to dust in its accumulative forces - goes on and on in ITS - the material effort of ITS proportions and ITS phase of the development, see? while the spirit force goes on in ITS own sphere, see? yet all of one - for we are brothers all.
5. (Q) This a good method to use in my writing? (A) A good method to use in writing.
6. (Q) Night of Feb. 26, 1927, while reading the "Secret Doctrine" by Blavatsky. Saw a pen drawn through that written and then drawn back over it again. Then the voice: "Not necessary for you." (A) As it were, that as is read here by the entity, that not necessary, even as an EXPERIENCE to the entity - for has not the entity received that same call, and that same promise, "I am with you. I will guide you. I will direct you. Keep thy paths straight."
7. (Q) At another time while reading this work I heard the voice: "This ought be easy for you." Yet it isn't so easy, and yet is. Why is it that the understanding mind is so poor at application - is so seldom successful in the world of application?
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(A) Fear.
8. (Q) Does this mean that I have sufficient understanding that with all the rest I hope to learn and apply this is unnecessary to burden myself with? (A) Unnecessary to burden self with. Only casting out fear - fear of censure, fear of self, fear of others, and fear of "What will people say?"
9. (Q) Yet the diverse viewpoints of the periods of activity and of rest of this creative force is a point much in dispute. Is this the case? (A) When properly understood, when properly classified, when properly given the viewpoint as has been set before the entity - in this as has been given here, in the separation of the spirit and the material, and each working under the one divine guidance of the all omnipotent - the all creative energy - this easily, better, more comprehensive to the entity.
10. (Q) Are there different rounds at the end of which the monad goes from planet to planet incurring a temporary sleeping or quiet stage and at the end of the 7th round the long period of rest comes, or is the action of this force not periodically absorbed back into the quiet mass state before the forces become active again in the next cycle, but do they endlessly continue at their creative work, every splitting into new forces to add to creation? The latter condition is in long process we know, but are there small and long rest periods? (A) There are small and long rest periods, just as is seen in the heartbeat of the material. Remember, ever there is in the material plane that pattern of that in the spiritual, or in the eons, or in the far distant sphere - for of the sphere is one beat, time is one - that as is present in THINE HAND is the counterbalance of that the farthest distance. As the heart rests from one beat to another, that is as the rest of that as NECESSARY to give that sufficient action to keep - with the rest of the forces - set in order its proper propelling force. Ever the same with that of the spirit entity, the spirit energy as is set in with the individual soul forces as are seen - and as the change from one sphere to another, that rest as is necessary - but with that ever added - for the conditions are active - for God is God of the living, not of the dead!
11. (Q) Saw my mother sick in relation to eliminations. [See 106-11 Reports.] (A) Again we find these same conditions as have been given again and again. Apply that as has been given. Apply that as has been given - for the good, and that as may be
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accomplished through same. Do that.
12. (Q) How may the pile trouble be remedied? [See 106-11 Reports.] (A) Through the application of those conditions as have been outlined from time to time for such conditions.
13. (Q) Is there need for an operation as regards the female trouble? [See 106-11 Reports.] (A) We do not find it so, were those conditions as has been given for the entity carried out in the proper way and manner, and the eliminations would be set aright. If allowed to become so accumulative and so set, as it were, that they become a vibratory force within themselves - Why does not that as has been learned by the entity find its application in the physical forces of the body? for just as in the lesson as has been given, in how that the forces of the universe as are applicable in one part are applicable in another. Learn to apply the smallest action to the largest deed. The largest then an outcome of the smallest action, that each vibratory force as is set goes about to do ITS work. When one cell becomes misplaced, mis-used, and it goes about to bring about ITS own active force - and it in an abstruse force, in an improper condition - improper conditions grow, by its NATURAL force. Then it would become necessary for operations. Operations NEVER necessary unless such condition has been allowed to reach the point where the cell units, or the vibratory force as is SET, has created an activity within its own self. See?
14. We are through for the present.