This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 22nd day of April, 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. Hugh Lynn Cayce.
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 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, [900]. The dreams as we see, come as visions and as the reasoning of the forces from within - for, as the change in the consciousness of the entity changes, so does the manner of the presented lesson or truth change in its manner of reaching the physical or workable consciousness of the entity. Not that the applications are different, but the various phases of the truths presented are in accord with that being sought, and how the entity may apply same in the own life toward the better understanding of the service to be rendered, and the position the entity itself occupies towards those creative forces that are manifested in the material world - for, as is seen in the development of the entity, the closer the entity comes to the understanding the more reason within self for that speech in prayer to those creative forces that give their more perfect understanding and protection to the entity in its seeking and in its application of those things, conditions, truths, lessons, as have been gained by the entity. Ready for the dream.
3. (Q) Morning of Tuesday, April 19, 1927. I beheld a round sort of light of darkened hue, set rather high up. I knew it to be another consciousness, for I felt my own to be a like condition. The other said to me: "All things are set in 'Me.' All things thru Him are in 'Me.'" Then I beheld the Master, the Christ, pass in white flowing robes. He seemed to understand the needs of my understanding much better than any of my previous interviewers, for He lifted me up and showed me exactly what this "Me" meant. Myself, this conscious light that I felt to be me, rose up to join
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Him and I felt that which was in Him to be "Me." I joined Him and became conscious One with Him such that "All things in Me" being in Me myself, altho I felt His relationship to my consciousness, but both of us were filled with the same knowledge that compose the fully developed "Me" or "I." Next came the application, and here again the Master understood my desire for specific instances to show me how better to apply my knowledge. We were in a Palm Beach Hotel, full of wealthy influential people. I walked down the path with some who spoke and joked of women and I joined them. The Master passed before me and out of the gate. I should have followed Him, I know, but instead remained with these people, to whom I said: "I don't know anyone here, but I used to. I used to chase around here with Robert Lehman," thus trying to make an impression on my friends about my previous influential companion. Then I jumped over a ledge to join a friend of mind and in so doing damaged some of the green leaves. A man came up and chided me, at which my friend said: "Why let him talk to you, a guest, that way?" I went up to my critic and asked him if he owned the hotel and what right he had to speak to me, a guest, in that manner. He said that he had some interest in the hotel and (as he seemed to have so many other more important guests) told me to pack up and get out. I felt humiliated. Prior to this I wanted to spend the afternoon boat riding with some child, but could not because the boat was already in use and the child riding in it with its owner. (A) In this we find again that presentation to the entity of that light as has been given that the entity would gain more and more consciousness of, as the understanding, the seeking, and the application of self toward those truths and lessons gained would bring. In this present vision the entity realizes, sees, understands, that as was given in that message as the Master spoke: "Seek me and I am with thee. Where I am there ye may be also. Greater things than I do ye shall do in my name," and, as the vision progresses and the entity loses that companionship, thee is shown that would the entity gain that full consciousness as is seen in that vision, shown by the vision - and also there is shown the forces as constitute the conditions in the material plane - again there is set before the entity that same law as was given of old: "This day I have set before thee good and evil. Choose thou. Choose thou" - for in the vision there is experienced those vicissitudes of the WORLDLY conditions, even in the higher social position, and the attitudes of
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many. Also when the entity would seek to do good without the full companionship of Him who gave that, "Lo, I am with you," even in that there comes the loss in the ability to apply the desire; yet, as is seen in the vision of life itself, and of the oneness with that ruling force in the Master, then the entity is to choose within self the way, the manner, in which the entity itself would serve - whether it is better to be cast in the ways of peace from within or to enjoy the pleasures of worldly desire for season. See? Apply then, and - as is seen - more and more would the light, the force, the power, all in all, be presented. "Speak and I will hear, for I am not afar off, but within thine own heart," would man but harken to that call. See?
4. (Q) Was my impression on awakening from this vision correct? (A) In so far as same is in keeping wholly with that as given, correct.
5. (Q) My one question is: "Am I correct in my deduction that my interview as as a disciple to the Master - i.e. was actually and interview with the Lord - 'the Redeemer'? Or am I deluding myself, for it would not be the first time my mental consciousness has risen into the very holy of holies - for it has been given that I am one in Israel, whom the Gods have given again the approach even to the Throne - am I correct or do I go too far, for my interviewer comprehended perfectly my mental needs?" (A) This is as the direct application of those truths as have been given the entity from time to time, for does not the entity gain that differentiation in the presence of the seeking for the Master and for the pleasures and the interests of making the good impressions in the world? As the impression is felt from within of the presence, and as the impressions are attempted to be made from within of the spiritual understanding that the social position of the physical being has reached to such proportions, just the same, and in just the same status and manner is this true; for the spirit of Christ abroad in the world seeks to be the indwelling factor in the life of those seeking to be like the Master, see?
6. (Q) Morning of April 20, 1927. My interviewer: "The forces need no cause of creation or reason for creative process. They are because they are, just as 2 plus 2 equals 4 and always has and always will equal 4. They do exist and," (then very loud and emphasized) "THEY ARE REAL!" (A) This is as the direct statement to the consciousness of the entity of stated facts and conditions, and are from this point the reasoning point - that is, they ARE; for, as
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given, God IS, and they that seek Him must believe that He IS, would they be able to become aware of that He IS - for when with secular reasoning there becomes that misunderstanding of the secular forces, there is that barrier builded over which reason stumbles, see?
7. (Q) Meaning that when I use the forces, as for example I did or think I did in mental healing of [136], know that I am using them - that thoughts telepathically become deeds because thoughts are these forces in materialized psychic action. Correct? (A) Correct.
8. (Q) That where another has the faith, I may so influence the forces to reward that faith to effect healing? (A) To effect healing.
9. (Q) Yet the [139] mind had unlimited faith and I tried and seemed almost to succeed - then failed. Why? (A) In the same manner as the Why as was sought by those ten who, though in the presence of the Master, failed to cast out the demon. Not that the power was not sufficient, even as was demonstrated by the Master, but that that doubt - that doubt - that remains in the background of the finite mind of man, for of the earth is earthy. More power to him who would gain that full consciousness that would not turn aside when brought with the Master for the elements of earthly position, condition, or favor, see? Just as the Why did the entity turn aside when in place of earthly position and leave the Master to pass on and seek the friendship even of those not known, yet desiring to impress same with the importance of the position of the body itself, see? and so in faith, so in the application of that ability to pass from one consciousness to another that healing force in the material plane, and - as is seen - there must be the full union of the forces, see?
10. (Q) Certain physical aid may be necessary in medicine, osteopathy, operations, etc., yet the Master healed cripples and restored life to the yet sleeping dead. Not that I put myself in such class - I merely seek a correlation and understanding as I strive might and main for the fulfillment of the promise given direct from Him. (A) In healing, in direction, there is, as is seen, that there are two consciousnesses to be made manifest with the one psychic or spiritual law. In the Master being the law, the law obeyed, rather than the Master obeying the law, for the Master WAS the law. In man this is as the borrowed light, for, as it has been given, "Let the light in THEE so shine that others, seeing, may glorify that light," see? As the light was in Him from the reflected glory of the Father,
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so may the light be in US through Him being One with the Father. The lesser light is the variation as heat - heat - heat, or cold - cold - cold; for, as is seen, the world is the fullness of force that is of one force in its modified activity through the various stages of that as is set, and that consciousness of the medicine is as that necessary in the development of the individual as is necessary to bring the healing forces,for the healing force is in the spiritual force of Him who gave all, and not in the medicine itself, but as the agent, as the reflected light of Him who gave all.
11. We are through for the present.