This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 17th day of January, 1940, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [2081], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., through Miss [1522].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born July 18, 1873, in Hartwick, Otsego Co., N.Y. Time of Reading 12:20 to 12:50 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City.
1. GC: You will give the relation of this entity and the universe, and the universal forces; giving the conditions which are as personalities, latent and exhibited in the present life; also the former appearances in the earth plane, giving time, place and the name, and that in each life which built or retarded the development for the entity; giving the abilities of the present entity, and that to which it may attain, and how. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: (In going back over the years from present - " - '33 - years of travail - '30 - '29 - '25 - through the hopeful periods - '20 - '19 - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [2081].
4. In giving the interpretation of the records here, these are chosen with the desire that this be a helpful experience for the entity.
5. While virtues and vices may be pointed out, there are always those assurances - from the source of light and truth, as promised in Him - that the individual may become aware of those promises being literal and true in the own experience.
6. Though persecutions and strifes may arise in the experience of each soul, each entity, know that these are but the testing periods - that each soul may be the more thoroughly acquainted with the knowledge that the assurance arises from within as to whether or not the desires, purposes and activities, are in keeping with HIS purpose and promise to the children of men.
7. Then, as each soul becomes more aware of the divine, as may give expression through the material urges as well as the mental and spiritual awakenings, these become assurances; and they are to be relied upon in such a manner, and NOT they in themselves looked upon as the activity that makes for the relationship.
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8. That is - God is not mocked; and whatsoever individuals, or souls, sow, or think, or imagine in the mental self, they build into their own lives.
9. Just as the body physically oft becomes subject to, or attuned to, those influences upon which it - the body - subsists, so the mind - as the builder in the spiritual relationships, or in relationships of the body-physical to the spiritual things - grows, or is inclined and acts towards the activities with which it becomes related day by day.
10. Hence the injunctions that are so oft given, to study to show self approved unto God, a workman not ashamed of what may have been in the experience, save that which is understood or comprehended as being not in accord with His laws, His ways, His desires with thee.
11. For, He hath not willed that any soul should perish, but has with each temptation, each trial, prepared a way of understanding, or escape.
12. It is indeed true, then, that each soul lives and moves and has its being in the Creative Forces - God. And it is for that purpose that each soul enters a material manifestation, that it may put the will, the glory, the purpose of the Father-God first and foremost, as exemplified in the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
13. Each soul is given the opportunity to manifest in the material plane, and He - Jesus, the Christ - has shown how that God's promises may manifest in the lives of individuals as they deal with their fellow men day by day.
14. For, if ye would be forgiven - even as He, then ye must forgive those who have trespassed or may trespass against thee. Though ye may be accused according to man's understanding (or his lack of it), thine own conscience, thine own spirit beareth witness with His Spirit as to whether ye are complying with His purpose, His law, day by day.
15. Hence, in thine own weakness ye may find the strength of purpose in Him. Know, as it was pronounced of old, it is not as to who will descend from heaven to bring thee a message, or an assurance; for Lo, it is within thine own heart, thine own mind, thine own conscience! For He hath given, "Behold, I stand at the door of thy consciousness and knock. IF ye will open, I will enter and sup with thee!"
16. This is a promise to each soul that seeks, desires, purposes to know God's way with it.
17. For, behold, NOW, there is set before thee good and evil, life and death - Choose thou!
18. And let thy prayer, thy meditation, be oft in Him. Be
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not overcome with the evil days that have come about thee from time to time. Put away, look not back upon them. Remember Lot's wife. Behold, He - the Christ-Consciousness - leads, directs; and thou canst rely upon Him, who is able to take thy burdens upon Himself.
19. And when ye take Him as thy counselor, thy Guide, thy Guard in the things that may beset of any form, any condition, know that He hath given, "My yoke becomes easy, THY burden becomes light." For He is the giver of truth and light.
20. Then, let thy prayer be:
21. "LORD, THOU ART MIGHTY IN THY STRENGTH AND IN THY PROMISES - THAT THOU ART EVEN MINDFUL OF THE CHILDREN OF MEN! "YET I APPROACH THY THRONE IN HUMBLENESS OF MIND AND BODY, SEEKING; THAT THOU WILT HEAR MY PRAYER! FOR THOU HAST SAID, THOUGH WE WANDER FAR AWAY, IF WE CALL YE WILL HEAR. "HEAR, THEN O GOD, IN THY MERCY! AND SHOW ME THE WAYS THOU WOULD HAVE ME GO DAY BY DAY. HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND BETTER, AS I STUDY THE LIFE, THE PURPOSE, THE ADMONITION OF JESUS, THE CHRIST. AND MAY THY WILL, O GOD, AS WAS DONE IN HIM, BE DONE IN ME! "HEAR ME, O GOD, AS I WAIT BEFORE THEE - NOW. COMFORT THOU ME; CLEANSE ME FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS; THAT I MAY BE CLEAN OF MIND, OF BODY, OF PURPOSE, THROUGH HIM - WHO GIVES LOVE, LIFE AND HOPE TO THE CHILDREN OF MEN."
22. These we find are preferable, to this seeking mind and heart, than the iteration of those faults or failures; for these will be - these ARE - forgotten in God. Know that He alone can give. Know that He WILL, He does, even as ye forgive!
23. We are through for the present. Copy to Self through Miss [1522] " " Ass'n file ile