This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 19th day of August, 1927, in accordance with request made by self - Miss [2842].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. L. B. Cayce and Eben Coe.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 12:30 Noon - Eastern Standard Time. ..., Mass.
1. GC: You will have before you the information given in the Life Reading for [2842] on May 19, 1926, and you will answer the questions which I will ask you regarding same.
2. EC: We have the information as transcribed here. This, as we see - while not in the way and manner of being all that might be said respecting this individual entity - was given, and has been given, that the entity - studying and applying same in the present experience in the earth's plane - might gain the better concept of that which will's influence plays in the individual development; for, having the urges and the desires placed before self - and the cause of same, through karmic influence - one may apply, will one but take that ensample as was set in Him who made Himself of no estate that He might gain the more. Using, then, this life as an ensample, one may apply - even as this entity may apply - these conditions in the earth's experience and develop toward that mark of higher calling as is set in Him - for it is not all of life to live, nor all of death to die; for one is the beginning of the other, and in the midst of life one is in the midst of death - in death one begins in that birth into which the earthly application of the inmost intents and desires as applied in respect to will's forces, that given by the Creative Energy, that one might make self equal with that Energy.
3. Ready for questions.
4. (Q) Is it best for me to keep on living the quiet, secluded life that I have, or should I strive to contact other human beings more? (A) Find self first in that quiet secluded manner, contacting others in the way and manner to DEVELOP that as has been given is the manner of the development for self. Learn to apply those lessons in self's self that are GAINED by the contacts that are made, and the entity learns to apply same in the quiet hours of introspection - for in the lessons given one finds that the soul speaks from within out, and may not be found among the rabble. The entity here
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finds quiet, and the chance for introspection, and with introspection DO NOT CONDEMN SELF through condemnation on the acts of others. Rather study that impelling force that - applied in the karmic life of the individual brings same to bear; for, as is seen, the law of cause and effect is as the law of time and space - for cause and effect are one, and each creates its own recompense by the application of same, and in the application of any law (which is love - law being love, LOVE being law) the truth, the effect, the cause is seen.
5. (Q) Am I working out my destiny rightly by taking little children into our home? (A) As given, the problem, the development for the entity, may and should - and WILL - be gained in such development; for in this, as given, is the development for the entity, meeting those conditions that were lacking in the development through those experiences in the earth's plane as given. That troubles arise, that there is seen the complex that arises from fear within - this fear, this complex, will only be understood by the proper UNDERSTANDING of self. That there is such is the natural development of conditions as were brought in the life, and in life these are met, and those dreads, those fears, are the karmic forces in action.
6. (Q) How can I best draw people of the right vibration to me? (A) By the correct vibration in self. Like begets like. Toned to a tone brings the proper tone from the perfect radiation of such. Each entity RADIATES that tone, that reflection of the concept of its creative force. Each entity, each atom of the entity, radiates that vibration to which it attunes itself. Each entity contacts, each entity brings that about itself by putting into action laws, those conditions, those individuals, those vibrations that are necessary for its own development. Hence has it oft been given, when thou prayest enter into thine closet, or into thine self, and thine Father that see-eth in secret shall reward thee openly. When thou attunes thine self to those vibrations, those necessary developments of thine own soul, the rewards are as that given - the end of that vibrated, for they are one. And while secularly or materially these may seem far afield, yet even unto the ends of the earth, even unto the beginning and end of time, the vibration, the truth of those forces of the creative energy are one, and - attuned - these bring those of the same attunement, for ALL are of ONE SPIRIT, and the various variations are those creations as sparks are of that which set same in motion,
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for all are a portion of that first Creative Energy - God.
7. (Q) Please tell me what my karma is, in order that I may strive to overcome it. (A) Overcome that fear and dread in self. That is the karma. That is that to be conquered in self, for this applies to the entity in its secular, physical, mental, and spiritual body - for, as is seen, when the body physical, mental or spiritual has set self to disregard fear of consequences, so long as that activity was in keeping with the first law of the directed or creative energy, all well! but when applied in the manner of I! the vibration has brought that as of against the stone wall.
8. (Q) Why have I always had more or less of an aversion to the opposite sex? (A) Rather that of the complex, brought on by fear - as has been given - in the various experiences of the entity in and through the earth's plane. This at times as the entity has felt mentally, and at other times felt inwardly has been detrimental, yet - would that law become the fullness of the truth in the entity - let that prayer be: I will be all things unto all peoples, that I may GAIN the more. NOT in the sense of building in self as one that would live upon the efforts of another, but that - being all things - I may be understood, and may UNDERSTAND the viewpoint, the concept, the impelling force, the reflective angle to which another sees its God.
9. (Q) Have I a right to demand abundance, or should I be content with my small income? (A) Be CONTENT with what thou hast, but never be SATISFIED with what thou hast. Abundance is the lot of him who is in accord with those truths of the Creative Energy, just as the world - the hills, the cattle, the gold - is mine, sayeth the Lord. I will repay, sayeth the Lord. Put thine self in that attitude, that position, of reflecting that as is of the Creative Energy, and that necessary - and over an abundance will be in thine hand.
10. We are through.