This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 26th day of August, 1927, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [900].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; L. B. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 1:00 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City.
1. LBC: 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.
2. EC: We have the body, the enquiring mind, [900]. This we have had here before.
3. The dreams, as we see, come through those channels as has been indicated for the body, and are as lessons, either directly or emblematically, and the body consciousness experiences in same those lessons that - applied in the physical forces - become a portion of the inner conscience, for mind the builder - being conscious, subconscious, superconscious, or each the various phase of the whole, the entity as a whole a portion of. Applying same, then, we find one builds to that attained through the ability to apply the lessons and truths gained by experiences in and through earth's phases of life.
4. Ready for dream.
5. (Q) Morning of August 19th. Regarding European trip. [137] came back and I asked him and Al Haft about it. He said they were going to speak to some individual on it right away. They did so and that individual came up and spoke to me and there seemed something disappointing or a postponement seemed necessary. I tried to insist that the trip could be made cheaply. [137], contrary to what I thought he would do, laughed at me, saying that it cost $50 carfare to travel some short distance by train. "It will take $5000 to make the trip you want to take," he said. (A) In this again, in this emblematical manner, through the consciousness of trip across waters, the entity finds self viewing self in that contemplated trip as is to be made by this entity across waters. While there may be the disappointment in the time that same is to be made, we find that the outcome of same will bring - as seen - much of the world's goods, and much understanding of various phases of the phenomena of life that have become, as it were, a
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portion of the entity.
The individuals seen, the individual's action, the disappointments, and those phases of conscious action, conscious feelings, being a portion of that through which the entity will pass before that period arrives when the entity will make the trip.
6. (Q) My father in relation to this. He was advising me on this trip - possibly telling me not to count my chickens before they are hatched. I saw chickens. Then a conversation or communication took place between us. I don't remember the whole of it - but it was a natural affair to me, as natural as any other kind of communication. (A) Indicating to the entity the character, the kind, of information that is to be so well understood by the entity through the experiences which the entity will pass on the trip. The chickens, the experience of conversation to the father, the indications of that way, manner, and understanding as is to be seen by the entity.
7. (Q) Then our communication turned to Jesus. My father seemed to agree with my concept of the Master, of the development of that entity in previous so-called rounds of creative activity to the point of perfection and His manifestation in earthly form of that condition, and of the cosmic condition created by virtue of that earthly experience. I told my father that my purpose was to show that this condition was not external to the achievement of man i.e. exceptional to a super-man such as Jesus alone, but to demonstrate that if I could do it from my lowly position and not conspicuously regarded abilities - all could do it. My father sanctioned this as a worthy purpose and further showed me that the condition I sought was now in sight for me in this final stage of my earthly development. (A) Correct.
8. (Q) Then in companionship we spoke of many things - things I long and love to speak of, but those who hear me know not whereof I speak and care less. I have so longed for a companion in my pursuits who would be interested in that which is so dear to my heart and mind and to discuss it with me. (A) (Interrupting) These, as is seen, are the carrying out, as it were, in the conscious and subconscious forces of the entity, those developments to which and through which the entity is developing towards that stage and state of the more perfect understanding of the why, the reason, the development as is necessary for each and every individual entity to attain in the earth's plane. More and more will
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be achieved by the entity, for with the realization of these conditions necessary for attainment, with the precepts as are set before the entity in the collaboration of companionship with the father, and with those in the various spheres and planes of development in the material life and in the cosmic life, these bring the lessons that the entity gives to others, and through service - and service alone - may bring each entity to that stage of development, even as is that which makes an entity a portion of the Godhead is as the service as is rendered - that created and creation making them that they are; for what we are speaks, irrespective of what others may hear.
9. We are through.