This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 25th day of May, 1927, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [2671].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:00 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Florida.
1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of [2671] of ..., Florida, and the dream this body had on the date which I will give you. You will give the interpretation and lesson to be gained from this dream, as I read it to you.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [2671].
3. Dreams, as we see, and as we have given, are the action of the subconscious forces of the body, manifested through that state when the conscious forces of the physical body are subjugated; or are the effect or action of physical conditions within the body; or are the combined effect of a highly developed consciousness of the body mind, with the correlation of experiences of an entity through its various experiences in the material plane.
4. In THIS body these are as LESSONS ever, for the body may gain the better understanding of those conditions [which are] is presented to the body through such experiences. For, as given, the mental forces and the subconscious forces of this entity, [2671], are highly developed, through the experiences in the material plane.
5. Ready for dream.
6. (Q) Morning of May 6, 1927. I was standing in the back yard of my home - had my coat on. I felt something inside the cloth on the cuff of my left hand coat sleeve. I worked it out, but it was fastened in the cloth and broke off as it came out, leaving part in. It proved to be a cocoon and where broke a small black spider came out. The cocoon was black and left a great number of eggs - small ones - on my coat sleeve, which I began to break and pull off. The spider grew fast and ran away, speaking plain English as it ran, but that I do not remember, except that it was saying something about its MOTHER. The next time I saw it, it was a large black spider which I seemed to know was the same one grown up, almost as large as my fist - had a red spot on it, otherwise was a deep black. At this time it had gotten into my house and had built a web all the way across the back inside the house and was comfortably watching me. I took a broom, knocked it down and out of the house, thinking I'd
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killed it, but it did more talking at that time. I remember putting my foot on it and thought it was dead. The next time I saw it, it had built a long web from the ground on the outside of the house in the back yard, near where I first got it out of my sleeve - and it was running up toward the eaves fast when it saw me. I couldn't reach it but threw my straw hat in front of it and cut the web and spider fell to the ground, talking again, and that time I hacked it to pieces with my knife. (A) In this there is see the emblematical conditions of those forces as are being enacted in the life of this body. And, as is seen, both the spider and the character of same are as warnings to the body as respecting the needs of the body taking a definite stand as respecting the relations of others who would in this underhand manner take away from the body those surroundings of the home - that are in the manner of being taken, unless such a stand is taken. For, as is seen, the conditions of the relations of the entity, the body, with another, as seen, are of the nature as is emblematically shown by the relations of this body with this other body; that its relations at first meant only that of the casual conditions that might be turned to an account of good, in a social and financial manner; yet, as has been seen, there has come the constant drain on the entity, not only in pocket but in the affections of the heart, and now such threaten the very foundations of the home - and, as seen, threaten to separate the body from the home and its surroundings; and unless the entity attacks this condition, cutting same out of the mind, the body, the relations, the conditions, there will come that condition that will be, as it were, as the condition as seen.
Take the warning then. Prepare self. Meet the conditions as the man, not as the weakling - and remember those duties that the body owes first to those to whom the sacred vows were given, and to whom the entity and body owes its position in every sense, and as well as the duty that is obligatory to the body or those to whom the entity, the body, should act in the sense of the defender, rather than bringing through such relations those dark underhanded sayings, as are seen, as said by that one who would undermine, as well as are being said by those whom the body may feel such relations are hidden from; yet these have grown to such extent as may present a menace to the very heart and soul of the BODY of this entity. Beware! Beware!
7. We are through for the present.