This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 13th day of December, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [3508], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. (Notes read to and transcribed by Jeanette Fitch.)
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:00 to 4:15 P. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Maine.
1. GC: Now you will have before you the body and enquiring mind of [3508] at her home in ..., Maine, who seeks a mental and spiritual reading, and you will give that advice and counsel which will be most helpful to the entity at this time.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind [3508] and those environs and activities about this entity.
3. As we find, in giving that which may be of help for the entity, it is well that there be given the premise from which such may be drawn. For it must be that which must answer to the purpose, the spirit within. And choices are to be made by the entity itself.
4. In analyzing self, the entity finds itself body, mind and soul, that answers in the three-dimensional plane to the Godhead - Father, Son, Holy Spirit. God moved, the spirit came into activity. In the moving it brought light, and then chaos. In this light came creation of that which in the earth came to be matter; in the spheres about the earth, space and time; and in patience it has evolved through those activities until there are the heavens and all the constellations, the stars, the universe as it is known - or sought to be known by individual soul-entities in the material plane.
5. Then came into the earth materiality, through the spirit pushing itself into matter. Spirit was individualized, and then became what we recognize in one another as individual entities. Spirit that uses matter, that uses every influence in the earth's environ for the glory of the Creative Forces, partakes of and is a part of the universal consciousness.
6. As the entity, an individual, then applies, it becomes aware - through patience, through time, through space - of its relationship to the Godhead - Father, Son, Holy Spirit. In self it finds body, mind, soul. As the Son is the builder, so is the mind the builder in the individual.
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7. Then, as the entity here, [3508], entertains this or that concept of materiality, it sets in motion that which is either contrarywise or in accord with the divine purpose.
8. Then the purpose of the entity, and how it may attain to that peace, that at-onement which the Son found in the Father:
9. The purpose of the entity in the earth, is that it may know itself, also to be itself, and yet at one with the Creative Forces, fulfilling those purposes for which the entity comes into the earth; accepting, believing, knowing then thy relationship to that Creative Force. For He hath called thee friend; not servant, but a friend, a brother, a sister. For "Who is my mother, my brother, my sister? They that do the will of the Father in heaven, the same is my mother, my brother, my sister."
10. Thus it behooves the entity to seek what is the will of the Father concerning thine individual self, to sow the seed of the spirit of truth; just being kind, patient, showing brotherly love, longsuffering, being gracious. This is sowing the seed, this is the will of the Father. For he that loveth his brother, his neighbor, yea his enemy, is a brother to the Lord - the Lord who is the Son, who is the Savior, who is the spirit of truth and purpose.
11. As these are applied in relationships to others we come to those questions that have been indicated; when ye shall stand before the throne of mercy, the throne of grace. "Inasmuch as ye have done unto one of these, even my little ones, ye have done unto me." Visiting the sick, the imprisoned, supplying those needs in the way of speaking gently, being patient with the froward [Obsolete word meaning "disobedient"] - as these are applied they bring peace into the heart, into the soul of the entity. For as He gave, only through the seed of the spirit may ye overcome the world even as He overcame the world. And the things of the world are to be used as in glory to the Father, and in honor to self.
12. Then, make the paths straight - just being patient, just being kind, just showing brotherly love. Then the entity may find in itself its relationship to others.
13. Then speak oft with thy Lord as ye would speak to thy brother. Oft approach Him in these manners, though in thine own words: FATHER, GOD! THOU WHO HAST GIVEN HEAVEN AND EARTH TO MAN! WE THY CHILDREN HAVE WANDERED FAR AWAY, AND YET IN THE PROMISE OF THE CHRIST, THE SAVIOR, WE MAY COME TO THEE AND ASK THAT WHICH IS THE DESIRE OF OUR HEARTS IN THY CAUSE.
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AND HE HAS PROMISED, O GOD, TO ANSWER - IN THE MEASURE WE METE TO OUR FELLOW MAN. SHOW THOU ME, O GOD, THE WAY. LET MY LIFE, MY PURPOSE, MY BODY, MY MIND, BE DEDICATED TO THE LOVE OF MY FELLOW MAN, IN THE SAME WAY AS THE MASTER, THE CHRIST, WOULD HAVE ME DO. LEAD, O LORD! I WILL FOLLOW WHERE THOU LEADEST.
14. We are through. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file