This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 7th day of July, 1939, in accordance with request made by the father - Mr. [849], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [849].
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:10 to 4:35 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. Washington, D.C.
1. GC: You will have before you [1521], born January 14, 1938 - Womans Hospital, 141 W. 109th St., New York, N.Y., [[1102] and [849]] the parents of the entity, desire to be informed as to the manner in which they can best combat the adverse influences which will be active during the period from the 18th to the 30th month of the entity's present earthly life. This is in accordance with the warning given through this channel on January 22, 1938. You will answer the questions which may be submitted, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [1521]; together with the information that has been indicated as to adverse influences for the entity from the eighteenth month to the thirtieth month of this particular experience.
3. These as we find are reflected in the conditions respecting the physical welfare of the entity, and would have to do with those things which would affect the body particularly through the glandular system.
4. Hence as we find, the particular precautions to be taken at this period are as to diet, as to the activity and associations with those where there may be the influence of an epidemic, or the natures of same that especially involve the glandular forces of the system.
5. For these come under the adverse force with the astrological aspects, and are thus only inclinations or tendencies.
6. Hence we would take a small quantity of Atomidine as a preventative - which will prevent also those inclinations for warts or moles - that to the entity in an experience before were very adverse! The dosage would be less, and not more than, a minim at a time, in a spoonful or two spoonsful of water. Make it less than a drop more often than one drop, you see; and this would be given about twice each week - Tuesdays and Thursdays being the better times.
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7. This as we find will not only be as a preventative, but will purify the glandular system so as to resist adverse influences; combined, of course, with those directions under that influence as may come from Samuel - through the prayer.
8. Do that.
9. (Q) What precautions can be taken to guard the feet and limbs of the child, to offset any tendencies toward infections or injuries? (A) The taking of the Atomidine would be the precaution for the same character of nature - or the infantile effect upon the body. And taking these precautions as indicated would lessen the conditions, even if there were to be an exposure to same.
10. (Q) What should the diet be in the present? (A) That for the natural, normal, growing child.
11. (Q) What other precautions of a healthful nature should be taken during this period? (A) These as we find would cover all those inclinations or tendencies. To be sure, right at this particular time, there needs to be the cleansing of the system, owing to the exact period through which it is passing at present - that is, that there is not an upsetting in the digestive system, see?
12. (Q) What special mental and spiritual training should be given during this period? (A) This is the beginning of the awakening to the comparative emotions for the body, and these are well to be kept in that way to aid in giving full expression of the imaginative influences as well as the emotions of the body - that are aroused by the awareness of relationships as the body finds same, or entity finds same, in its development for COMPARISONS of this or that. For, as will be seen, there will be gradually - through these particular periods - the activities of the mind in such a manner as to show how the body-mind begins to expand by comparison, see?
13. (Q) What is meant by the warning that the very causes of the individual's physical, mental and material emotions must be given consideration from a spiritual angle, and how can this be observed? (A) Too oft, with the imaginative influences and forces of the body as it awakes to the awareness of a physical AND spiritual emotion, there is the training AWAY FROM the individuality of the entity that is exercised through the urges which arise innately in the experience of the entity
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through the awareness period, to what may be called the personality of the individual, see? Hence the warning is that the entity should be allowed to give EXPRESSION of those emotions, or experiences that it will gradually begin to describe - as to the hearing, seeing, feeling in its activity - and that there be the explanation that these arise within the self from the SPIRITUAL and not from the bodily emotions alone. This, then, is that which will enable a greater influence of the spirituality of the urge to become so much a part of the entity; enabling same to be as real in its experience as its daily life.
14. (Q) Is the soul which is/was hoped might come in the place of this entity, and as a male, that which was Samuel, the son of Hannah? (A) As indicated, as outlined, the prayer to and through the guiding force of Samuel will aid in the help to Samuel's mother.
15. (Q) If so, is this the soul which will aid the entity and to which the entity can pray for guidance? (A) As just indicated. This has been indicated before; it is indicated here. For, as some would have it, the hierarchies are not unmindful of the developing of souls through the experiences in the earth. Hence such is not OUT of the ordinary, but the natural spiritual development in and through the very association and the prayer and care of those to whom such a soul is entrusted. For, as has been indicated, there is - to be sure - something of a choice of the entity seeking expression. In the material world and materiality, it is more often trained or convinced AWAY from its natural spiritual import. For, is it not for spiritual development that each soul enters? and not merely for mental OR material or physical? For in the Pattern, which is the way and the manner, we find that these phases are ever considered as one; yet the Mother kept these and pondered them in her heart. What meaneth this? save as to that injunction which would be given to every parent: Ponder well the expressions that arise from the emotions of a developing child; for, as has been forever given, train them in the way they should go and when they are old they will not depart from the way.
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16. (Q) Explain why the change of entity and the change of sex took place, between the time when a son was indicated through this channel, on September 23, 1937, and the birth of the child. (A) This, as has been indicated, was given that there might be the greater opportunity for the developing of the entity Hannah UNDER the direction of Samuel, with the aid AND direction of thought by the parents. This was deemed by the seeker as the channel for expression.
17. (Q) What is the mission of the entity in this experience? (A) That the glory of the Father in the Son may be the more magnified in the lives of those the entity meets. As the entity brought into the experience of a peoples a new form, a new character of a determining factor between the peoples and the worship of the living God, so may the entity in this experience bring into experience - through the preparation of its body, its mind for the creating or bringing into conception - an activity that may, AS the son then, again revolutionize that relationship of man to the awareness of his relationship to God. For the offspring of this entity will anoint a holy one!
18. We are through for the present. Two copies to Parents Copy to Ass'n file file