This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 3rd day of August, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - [2834], Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
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 3:35 to 3:55 P. M. Eastern War Time. New York City.
1. GC: You will have before you the entity [2834] born August 15, 1906, in Plymouth, Mass., who seeks a Check Life Reading in regard to his mission in the near future to China, for the general purpose of improving the future of cultural relations as they affect books between this country and China in the years after the war. The entity seeks advice with particular reference to what faults or pitfalls to be most on guard against and what ways he can be most likely to be of service both to Americans and Chinese. You will then answer the questions he submits, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the entity here, [2834] - and those conditions as to the fitness of the entity for such a mission as is proposed in regard to the exchange of books between such a country as China and America.
3. In considering such, many things are to be taken into consideration. First and foremost are the various castes, or the very decided sects or groupings of the various types of individuals - in the intelligentsia class and those as related to religion and politics.
4. There is much in some manners that may be gained from China by Americans, by students of human family and human relationships. Also there is much that China, in all its varying groups, may obtain from America, in books, in studies of such.
5. As will be seen, the greater rule in the next twenty-five years in China is to grow towards the Christian faith (though it may appear to some at present that this is lacking), but the principles of Chinese literature and Chinese economics should be studied.
6. The greater mission of the entity [2834] should be in dealing with those things (as may be in books from out of China) (as in America) upon which ALL groups may agree, whether the low or high caste. And there should be those exchanges with China of that upon which all groups, all classes, may agree.
7. But the main groupings to deal with will be the
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intelligentsia, and those that have been - or may be - students of American ways and means.
8. These are the main principles, as we find, for this entity to consider in such a mission. Do not be sidetracked by ANY individual group, but lean towards those that will be in political as well as in religious power. For, this will not only aid in expediting such relationships but will make for a broader, more helpful experience in such an undertaking.
9. Some will go very slowly, and then SUDDENLY many sections, many provinces will indicate their readiness to cooperate.
10. The principle shall be, then: Mutual helpful cooperation for spiritual, mental and material welfare.
11. Ready for questions.
12. (Q) What attitude of mind and spiritual approach will best serve the success of the mission? (A) In following those outlines indicated. To be sure, there will be problems with varied groups. Keep the mind sufficiently open to hear those of VARIED groups. And there will be some the entity will find that he will not be able to approach, in this first mission. But these, as indicated, are approaching that period where there may be the interchange with that purpose (and let that purpose be known) of a mutual, cooperative assistance for the greater advancement in spiritual, mental and material ways.
13. (Q) What pitfalls should I be most careful? (A) Those of being sidetracked into one sect or group.
14. (Q) What people, or types of people, are most likely to be valuable when I am in China? (A) As indicated, those who have been educated - or who are seeking education - in America.
15. (Q) May it be indicated as to the destiny of the Chinese during the next twenty years - whether they are likely to take a more democratic turn or a more authoritarian turn? (A) More of the democratic. For, as has been indicated, more and more will those of the Christian faith come to be in political positions, and this in China will mean the greater rule in certain groups - according to how well these manifest. And these will progress. For, civilization moves west.
16. (Q) Would it be wiser to devote more time to Government officials and figures or to private writers and publishers and the Chinese intelligentsia? (A) As indicated, lean towards the intelligentsia, BUT with an OPEN MIND, with the leaning towards those of the
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Christian tendencies.
17. (Q) May any more be given now regarding China? (A) Much - much might be said as to the various sects in China at the present time. But these will all be united, more and more, towards the democratic way - just as it has begun and as it has been in the last twenty years, and it will grow and spread faster in the next twenty-five, and more in the last five than in the first ten.
18. (Q) Any other advice to the entity regarding this trip? (A) Keep the faith in self and in the abilities to meet the needs of the peoples of China, as well as in accepting that of value in China for America. And, most of all, let ALL be to the glory of the Father-God.
19. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file