This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 2nd day of February, 1938, in accordance with request made by the mother - Mrs. [...], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. J. Francis Small of 229 Fourth Ave., New York City, and Sponsored by Miss Mary C. Clendenin, 400 W. 118th St., New York City - by choice of the Association Reading Committee. Mrs. [...] is to gradually pay the membership fee herself, which will be then used to Sponsor a Reading for another in need who is unable to pay at the time.
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 3:50 to 4:25 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Michigan. (Physical Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the body - and those conditions and circumstances which attend same in the present disturbances.
2. In giving an interpretation of the disturbing forces - and in giving that as we find that may be applied in a material and mental and spiritual angle, we find that the condition may be well likened unto an entangled skein of the thread of life which manifests in a material body.
3. Hence things and conditions mentally, materially, spiritually, enter in. And the effects that are here produced are the entanglement of soul-matter in mind-expression in materiality, in this body.
4. There is, then, the necessity of understanding and interpreting the law of matter - or cause and effect - as related to the mental and spiritual expressions in matter.
5. As has been given of old, when there are disturbing or harmful or detrimental influences, there is error at the base or the cause of same.
6. For ever does that injunction stand, as the promises of the divine forces in the experience of man, that "Whatsoever ye sow, that must ye also reap."
7. Just as sure as it was said that he that breaketh the law in the least jot or tittle is guilty of all.
8. Just so do the promises hold that "Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, BELIEVING, that shall ye have in thine experience - ACCORDING to the law as to what ye have sown!"
9. As we find then:
10. In the prenatal experiences of this entity, in the embryo, there was the forming of lesions that hinder in the normal activity and equal balance of coordination between
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consciousness and unconsciousness; arising in the functioning of the body-forces when in that state which is a manifestation or EMBLEM of the period of transition - or sleep.
11. What then IS sleep?
12. What relations does it bear to material consciousness? to the subconscious or superconscious forces of the body? of the mental and the spiritual body?
13. The fact that the physical grows weary and needs, necessitates, demands the periods of rest for recuperation in the experience of physical matter, is manifested in the activities of nature herself, in her every form - that is a part of, and is the experience of man in all his mental equipment.
14. For with all man's knowledge he HAS not, DOES not forego this necessity - as is signified by the experiences about him in every form of spirit manifestation in matter.
15. That in man there is the threefold self - body, mind, soul (or spirit) - is significant; when there are the manifestations of such disturbances that exist in the experience of this entity.
16. (Not that this information being given is the attempt to justify same, but that it may be thoroughly understood that each entity, each soul must meet its own SELF its deeds done in the body! and in the BODY MEET them TO the glory of the GIVER of life! that it may INDEED be said, "God hath not willed that any soul should perish but hath with every temptation prepared a manner, a way of escape.")
17. Thus the conditions become as a manifestation of that which was so well, so beautifully spoken of by Stephen as he pronounced - to those who would find fault with his adherence to the truth - that JESUS, the MAN, WAS the Son, WAS the Savior, IS the manifestation of the God-Consciousness in materiality! Yet it must needs be that HE, too, suffer through the trials of being buffeted, being tried by those who under the LAW (of man) were in authority but who under the spiritual law were His inferiors, His subjects; and die even the death on the Cross!
18. So must there be, so are those influences, those determining factors that have become - into man - as the weaknesses of the flesh, ills in the physical being; bringing oft through same great suffering - as to Him. For though He were the Son, yet learned He obedience through the things which He suffered!
19. Then, as the condition exists - this entangled skein of events, entangled skein of misapplication in this experience of this body, this mind, this soul - how may there be those
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things of a material or mental or spiritual nature, or all combined, applied in such a manner that the body, the mind, the soul MAY give the better account of itself in this individual material experience?
20. In the application, know that the APPLICATION and the reason is from that premise that all force, all power, all time, all space are in Him, the giver of the promise, "God hath not willed that any soul should perish."
21. Then, in the entanglement in the BODY, we find a soul, a condition, where there is the break in this coordination of mind and spirit with the activities of the physical body.
22. That these have remained as inactive portions of the body-physical for a long period makes the necessity then for the greater precautions, but the more consistent application of that which may bring into the experience the untangling as it were of this skein, this matting of the ENDS that carry impulse to the nerve systems of the body; that produces this incoordination, this breaking of consciousness, this spasmodic reaction to the nerve centers and fibres along the cerebrospinal system as it attempts to coordinate the impulses broken in its associations with the vegetative or sympathetic system, thus bringing those spasmodic reactions.
23. THEN:
24. In the right side, about the portions where there is the emptying of the lower stomach or duodenum into the jejunum or the smaller intestines, where the lacteal ducts draw the greater forces from the activities of the secretions from the liver, the spleen, the pancreas, the gall ducts and the like - when these in the body become as it were emptied, or there is an overgorging of this flow, there is physically the recurrence of the spasmodic reactions.
25. Then as we find, there may be applied (not leaving off those bromides that are being taken to allay, to assist in the digestive forces, until there are) those influences that make for the enlarging of this opening, the breaking up of this tissue that PHYSICALLY causes the spasmodic reactions in the area (then gradually decrease the bromides).
26. And keep the mental and spiritual attitudes that what is being applied, being a part of the divine purposes and causes, may - if it is in keeping with the desire and purpose of the God Consciousness - arouse these deadened portions that lack the consciousness of allowing those influences within the system to give their greater expression through those depleted areas, by the non-use and the over-indulgence in other natures that draw upon same.
27. Thus there may be brought cooperative, coordinating
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forces; that the body, mind and soul as an entity may express the more in keeping with His ways.
28. APPLY, then, PERIODICALLY - for periods of at least twenty-seven days - every day for twenty-seven days - the Castor Oil Packs. Put these on at some specific time each day, for a period of two hours, as hot as the body may bear same - over the area from the upper portion of the liver to the caecum area, along the right side - cover this whole area with two or three thicknesses of heavy flannel saturated in hot Castor Oil, and let remain for the whole period of two hours, keeping same warm. Then sponge off the area with a little soda water, and, when dried, massage GENTLY with Olive Oil (a teaspoonful should be sufficient, or all the abdominal area will absorb) over the lacteal duct, the lower portion of the colon, the area across and just below the diaphragm or down the right side.
29. Do this each day for twenty-seven days. Then leave off for a period of a week. Then begin again.
30. And keep, through each application, that period of the deeper meditation; SEEING, knowing that what ye ask is being accomplished in this body!
31. And ye will bring that influence, that force into the experience where this entity may grasp the light, the hope that is eternal within the hearts of those who seek to know the face of the living God!
32. We are through for the present. Copy to Mother " " Ass'n file " " Sponsor, Miss Mary C. Clendenin [2/2/38 GD's note: Mother in ..., Va., whose son [561] has been cured of a similar condition - though perhaps not as severe - by following the Castor Oil Packs and other minor treatments suggested through Mr. Cayce's Readings: [...] ..., Va. Active Member of the Association in ..., who knows the value of following Mr. Cayce's Readings: Mrs. [601] ..., Michigan.]