This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 21st day of February, 1928, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [900].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading Del Coronado Hotel, 3:45 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. Coronado Beach, Calif. (Dream Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [900] - this we have had here before.
2. The dreams, the visions, the consciousnesses as attained by the entity in the concentration and consecration of self to an individual work brings to the consciousness of the body many varying phases of the phenomena of experience, as well as of life, and in same the body may gain much, gaining better understanding and better ability to apply that that the body becomes conscious of. Keep the body, the mind, the being, in accord; that the greater forces, the greater powers, as has been given, would be possible through the experience of the body, that the body may use - not abuse; may give, not acquire; may gain for self that understanding in self that brings self close to that all creative energy, even as was manifested in the flesh that all men might have the greater access to that oneness of purpose as was given from the foundations of the universe; for in attainment alone is not sufficient, but in the ability to give that understood so that others may understand; for only in sacrifice is one purged of that that would so easily beset those forces as are manifest through an earthly experience. Remembering, even though He were the Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered. Not, then, in vain-glorying; not then in the amount of moneys, lands, holdings, houses, cattles, nor gold - but in that ability to serve thine brother lies strength, security, and the perfect knowledge of God. Ready for dreams.
3. (Q) Night of February 6 or morning of 7, in Hotel Adams, Phoenix, Arizona. I was told that David [...] alone would remain alive of [Uncle [90]'s] family, to understand my lecture. (A) This an interpretation of self's consciousness with subconscious self of others, that the conditions surrounding the variations in development of individuals - and as seen, that the body [900] might know, through gaining such
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consciousness, that as to be met in the various forms of censure or praise that may come to the body through such sources, even as given regarding the body that would falter, fail, when the work of the physical was complete - in the change of residence for the varied and varying conditions in the physical. These, then, are as has been given - a form of that ability within self to prognosticate, or to give the self more stability, in the ability of the consciousness to foresee, foretell, fore-understand, the laws being meted through actions of individuals as related to the varying laws exercised in a material world, where man in man's action either coincides or acts in [a manner] at-variance to those universal laws as set in motion through the act of creative forces manifested in the world.
4. (Q) I was told that Isadore Beitman's death would take place when he moves out to the desert. (A) Just given.
5. (Q) He plans to move on desert in June. Is June, 1928, when his death may be expected? (A) (No answer)
6. (Q) (Continuing) I was told that Death is separation and this was illustrated in ferry boat separating from its pier. I was told that Death is separation just as death for a drop would be separation of its elements into hydrogen and oxygen. (A) Correct. Here again we have visions, as the consciousness of the individual entity reaches out to grasp that that will bring the consciousness in the sensuous sense. The body in illustrative manners, and the body consciousness through same, becomes the more adaptable to the needs of self and of those whom the body may aid in an understanding of the relations of the life as has been given the body in that all life is one life, and the transition, the separation, the division, is as that given, so that even to man's sensuous consciousness the change takes place; yet each possession possessing the power, even as IN the drop of water separated, or as water congealed or expanded has its own peculiar power through the various stages of transition. Each force as manifested in the various stages, or states, being as that illustration of the various stages a life may manifest in its varied forms, either before combined in hydrogen and oxygen becoming water. Then in a normal state representing a certain element separated by contact - cold or heat - changing form, and yet in each possessing a power, a force, all individual in itself, and only accessible when in THAT peculiar state.
7. (Q) Night of February 10 or morning of 11 in Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, Calif. Saw many tents as in bible days
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of tribes of Israel. I was in center with a large dark man who seemed to be a Hindu.
(A) Here we have again the entity correlating with its own individual life that of the various appearances in earth's plane, under the various spheres and conditions through which the life as an entity labored, and - as seen - there gathered the tents, there gathered the workers, the laborers, the leader, the guider, the ruler - as it were, or that one to whom the entity looked for guidance or direction in the physical labors of the day; yet, even as experienced by the entity in the vision, the abilities of self in the mental manner were accentuated even to that beyond the abilities of the ruler, or the leader, or that one to the MIND sensuously representing the Hindu, or a phase of the law as presented in the various forms of religious life, and - as seen - the varying conditions presented by the body at the period of a change in the manner, the form, the way, in which others attained or grasped the meaning of the purpose, or purport, of labors expended in the rebuilding of the places of abode, as well as of worship - even as seen, there came about that desire in self to make of the worship that unison of purpose with the labor of the body and of mind, see?
8. (Q) Then came the prophecy in which I was told, as follows, by one in the cosmic plane: "Your death will be sudden and for the sake of humanity." (A) As given, as seen through those same sources as the entity gave itself in the various periods of its development, in each period there was the sacrifice of self in life for the purpose of the entity's giving that lesson attempted to be taught through that period. Then rather is there seen that in the correlating of the experience seen in the vision, in the freedom of truth there comes life more abundant - rather than that of the claws of time, space, or of knowledge, making one as slave to an idea; for in truth comes freedom, whether from bodily life or from the truths as seen; for in each there comes the freedom of life, see? Not meaning, then, that the entity, the body, the body-consciousness, would shield self from such. Rather offering self in the manner as has been given, as WILL be given, concerning this.
9. We are through for the present.