This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 16th day of June, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [1388], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended and sponsored by Mr. [257].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 3:40 to 4:15 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., New York.
1. GC: You will have before you the body and enquiring mind of Mr. [1388], in his office at ..., Real Estate Division of the Trust Department, and his opportunities for development materially, financially and socially. You will also have his associations with [257] of ... Ave., N.Y.C. You will answer the questions he has submitted concerning these, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [1388]; those associations and relations and activities of the body.
3. Ready for questions.
4. (Q) Can this place and field be developed to make a worth while future for me in this bank? If so, how should I proceed? (A) This character of position or place can be made most worth while, if there is the activity of such an one that makes for the handling of such situations being carried on in the way and manner as to be safe, sane, and in keeping with good judgements and good understandings. For, naturally, many activities arise in which judgements of human nature are required, as well as judgements as to individuals' abilities to carry on the financial rate or terms. Also such activities oft require the acting when there are unpleasant duties connected with same. Hence one that would handle such, or make such worth while, must use diplomacy of a nature that is founded on the psychology of the human individual and human relations. If such a place is handled in such a manner, it becomes not only - the work of the entity - the filling of a place in an institution, such as a bank, but gives the individual so handling same the opportunity to be not only valuable to the bank or the financial institution for help, an aid to those who are in the positions of the nature as such a condition presents, in the experience of many individuals.
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Hence the matter of judgement becomes the most of the activity; and so oft the source of the judgement is not as to how an individual lives, or the amounts of money taken in, but the manner of life the individual leads - and this is necessarily bound in the individual's spiritual life. For if such individuals are worldly-minded, these activities must come to naught. If the home, the home life, the activities to the family are in keeping with that which is toward a constructive forces in the lives of the individuals, then those who are in any manner in position - without speculative interests - to be able to care for or to meet any sort of terms are to be considered well. And it is on such a policy, such an activity, such a judgement that the body, the entity, [1388], may not only make the place a worthy part of the activity of the institution but himself be an honor to the institution and to the place that such should occupy in the experience of any institution that serves the public and is served by the public - as such a place as this is.
5. (Q) What would be the best way to handle the special work which has been assigned to me pertaining to mortgages? (A) As has been indicated. These are to be studied in the light of the situations that are in the hands of each individual. If these are judged from rather their social climbing, their material welfare, be wary of same. If they are impelled by duty, home and the spiritual inclinations, think on them twice.
6. (Q) What aid can I expect from [...] who is advisory aid and associate bank and to [1388]? (A) May I? It's [1388] with those associations as we find that we are following! What is given by [1388] to the activities may be expected to be the returns. There is no return without the giving of self in an activity of worth whileness in any experience.
7. (Q) What steps will I have to take to get proper recognition from the officials of the Bank of ...? (A) These questions apparently are confusing as to the individual for whom we are seeking information. There IS the recognition, there IS the position - only to be carried on.
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8. (Q) Can my present work continue and develop the new department at the same time or what plan should I adopt and what should my attitude be? (A) This is still confusing, as to that presented. It's only to be carried on in the way and manner that has been indicated.
9. (Q) Will I be able to promote myself into a better executive position in this institution or will I be compelled to make a new association elsewhere for advancement? (A) If the policies, if the activities in this institution are held to in the way and manner as has been indicated, and worked at, no need to look elsewhere for recognition or for advancement.
10. (Q) What field am I best suited for to the best interests of all concerned? (A) If there had not been the recognition of the abilities of the entity in this field, it would not have been placed in charge of same. Hence it must be carried on in the way and manner that fits self for same. But if it is felt by self that other phases of the activity are more desirable - and because of the conditions that are oft hard to be dealt with, that require tact and activities that become a hardship - then we would change without a thought. But when the abilities of the entity are considered, and the service that may be rendered - not only to the institution but to individuals, because of the manner of judgement and of activity - it is well to hold to that you have.
11. (Q) What aid will I receive for my future from Vice-President, [...]? (A) Whatever is given, that you will receive in return. It depends upon how much confidence you build so that it may be had by the Vice-President - because he will be advanced! That's how much you may get back!
12. (Q) [...], my immediate superior? (A) There are some questions here with [...] - he is a little overbearing; but it's good training for the body and for the entity, if it will be taken in the right way and manner.
13. (Q) How best can I build myself through these two men? (A) In following, as indicated, the manner and the form and the way of carrying on such an activity.
14. (Q) What can I do with the bank mortgages to bring myself to the attention of the top officer such as the President or Chairman of the Board? (A) In the way and manner as indicated as to how it may be handled. Consider the individual and each individual case in the ways and manners that have been indicated. For these
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are policies that - while a little out of the ordinary, to be sure - are sound, safe, and build in the hearts and the minds and the affairs of ALL who will apply them in their daily life. RIGHT is the way and manner. Might and main do not succeed. Neither does oil mix much with water. Neither do those things pertaining to the flesh only build homes nor businesses. It's only when all phases and all portions are builded on the safe and sound basis, the sane basis, that there is the proper building up; and this is applicable in those conditions where it becomes necessary even to change homes or businesses or to re-let same in other ways and manners. Keep these in mind. Keep these as the criterion: He that is founded in home, in not merely church or religion but in spiritual things, in the spiritual life and in the building of a constructive force, WILL succeed!
15. (Q) How long will it take me to get advanced in the bank? (A) How long till tomorrow? This depends upon the activities, the sincerity, the clarity of purpose, and the way and manner it is carried on.
16. (Q) Who is the best person or what is the best channel for me to work through for my development and promotion? (A) SELF - and God; and taking Him into partnership with you, in the directions with you - that's the only way for advancement! For all power and all might, that may be in the hands of man, is only lent for a purpose; for it IS of God. Then when an individual in any institution, in any business, in any relationship, in any walk of life, walks in the way and manner in which his days and his needs may be in keeping with that which is a proper consideration of the brother and of the brother's relationships, then we may know God will give the increase as the individual is able to bear it.
17. (Q) Is there any way for me to increase my earnings by holding this position? (A) Do not attempt to do so by any short cuts. Use that you have in hand day by day in the way and in the spirit of truth and right and justice and mercy and patience and longsuffering and kindness; then what thou needest, it will be thine!
18. (Q) In what way can [257] and I make money together or aid in my development at the present time? (A) For that it is best to take into consideration what the ideals and the purposes of each are, in their relationships one to another, and as to how their purposes, aims and desires may be made one in the light of constructive force
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in the experiences of individuals who may need their abilities, their thought and their activity in their own development.
19. (Q) What new development or business can I work out in my present situation that will aid me in building my future? (A) Better work out what you have in hand first, before you step out to far beyond. Get these in proper shape and proper form, proper manner, and then there may be seen those things, those ways and manners in which branching out may be helpful.
20. (Q) What benefit will I get by continuing my present work so that I may know what improvement the future holds for me? (A) This must be answered from within. When you know that the policies, the activities are in keeping with that which is not only making the material returns to the institution but building hope, understanding, the proper relationships with those with whom the entity is dealing, in the activities of the undertaking of the office that is held, then the answer is known from within.
21. (Q) Is there any other bank in New York who would consider my experience more valuable or more worth while? (A) If there are other institutions considered more valuable than the one with which self is associated, then associate self with another! If you aren't with the best institution and the one in which you may best serve, then get out of it! If you cannot best serve in such an institution, then get out of all of it!
22. (Q) When may I expect my most important opportunity to come? (A) When you give forth the best that's in you for the service and the activities of the fellow man, in relationship to the whole of the institutions's work. As you give you receive.
23. (Q) What is the future value or benefit of the mortgage field in N.Y. or surroundings? (A) As indicated, it is ever in those places where it may be of a great service to the individual or groups or associates honestly seeking to be of service in an equitable way and manner, dealing fairly and squarely with all its relationships. Hence this fills a place where such institutions may be of a help, may be of value to the community, to the individual, to groups, and to those who are building constructively in the affairs of the people of the community - or in whatever community the chosen activities may be sought.
24. (Q) What kind of plan can I work out for [257] on the ... property that he can remain as a tenant and ultimately
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own the property, should he desire it? (A) Only make it in an equitable way and manner as for the care that [257] has put, may put, the manner in which it may be put in form or shape so it is more valuable by [257]'s having been and being in same than by being leased or even attempting to be sold under the existent circumstances. In that way and manner it can be worked out to the most satisfactory arrangements for all concerned. Give a certain period or time - another year or another eighteen months; and in that time certain changes must be made that are improvements, that would be the same character of improvements that would not only be for [257]'s material or immediate benefit but for the benefit of the resale or the same, or for activities of others that might be in the market for purchasing same.
25. (Q) What source will be the best market for the products I have to offer? (A) These as we find must be sought in channels in which there are outlets for the products.
26. (Q) Is the time for me to attempt to build the department for business reorganization or business liquidation in this bank and get full credit for it? (A) It is time.
27. (Q) Please give me advice as to how to conduct myself in my daily life to further my best development both in the eyes of God and man. (A) This has been given. Study to show thyself approved unto God, first; keeping self unspotted from the world. Look upon thyself as a channel through which not only the financial institution may be benefitted, with which you are affiliated or associated, but a channel through which the individuals you meet - in their lives, if their experiences or their activities are in keeping with that which is constructive - may be helped. If their lives are in those channels in which they are self-indulgent, forget them - make the more demands upon them, but let them know WHY!
28. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file " " Mr. [257]