This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Phillips Hotel, Dayton, Ohio, this 14th day of February, 1924, in accordance with request made by [5717], [953], [294], and others.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Linden Shroyer, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading Phillips Hotel, 3:00 P. M. Dayton, Ohio.
39. (Q) What are the laws governing relativity of all force? (A) In giving the manifestation of such an law, which does exist, we first must consider that, that is called force, and that force then in its relation, or the relativity of that force to all force.
There are, as were set in the beginning, as far as the concern is of this physical earth plane, those rules or laws in the relative force of those that govern the earth, and the beings of the earth plane, and also that same law governs the planets, stars, constellations, groups, that that constitutes the sphere, the space, in which the planet moves. These are of the one force, and we see the manifestation of the relation of one force with another in the many various phases as is shown, for in fact that which to the human mind exists, in fact does not exist, for it has been in past before it is to the human mind in existence.
In this, we see the law of the relations of conditions, space or time and its relation to human mind, as is capable of obtaining information upon the earth plane from a normal force or conditions. Hence, we bring the same word, relativity of force, to prove its own self, and condition, for we have as in this:
The earth in its motion, held in space by that force of attraction, or detraction, or gravitation, or lack of gravitation in its force, so those things that do appear to have reality, and their reality to the human mind, have in reality passed into past conditions before they have reached the mind, for with the earth's laws, and its relations to other spheres, has to man become a past condition. So it is reached only in the further forces as will show, and as is given, for man to understand in this developing, or this evolution from sphere to sphere, or from plane to plane, in this condition.
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Hence, we find to the normal mind, there is no law as to relativity of force, save as the individual may apply same in the individual's needs of them. That is sufficient.
40. (Q) What is meant by the Gods of the Universe referred to in the readings? [See 3744-2, Par. 9-A.] (A) Just as in this. All force has its incentive, the directing or creating of that force. That force to the human mind apparent, as different conditions, or relations, as referred to as the God, or the ruling force, of that individual force, as is giving the expression, and is referred to as the God, as of War, as of Peace, as of Water, as of the elements under the Sea. As of those above, as the God of High Heaven, the ruler over all, the one in all and the all in one.
41. (Q) Give the best method of helping the human family increase in knowledge of the subconscious soul or spirit world. (A) The knowledge of the subconscious of an entity, or an individual, in or of the human family, is as of one integral force, or element, or self in the creation of the human family, and until the entity, or individual, as individuals, make this known to groups, classes, countries, nations, THE GREATER STUDY OF SELF, that force will only be magnified. That of the spirit is the spark, or portion of the Divine that is in every entity, whether complete or of the evolution to that completeness.
The study from the human standpoint, of subconscious, subliminal, psychic, soul forces, is and should be the great study for the human family, for through self man will understand its Maker when it understands its relation to its Maker, and it will only understand that through itself, and that understanding is the knowledge as is given here in this state.
Each and every person getting that understanding has its individual force toward the great creation, and its individual niche, place or unit to perform. Has to reach numbers of psychic forces or phenomena that may be manifested in the earth plane, all the same, yet the understanding for the individual entity, viewed from its own standpoint, with its knowledge, is obtained and made ready by itself, to be manifested through itself, towards its own development, and in that development of the creation or world. In this manner, and in this form, and in this way, will the development (TO STUDY THE FORCE AS GIVEN THROUGH THIS MANNER) be of assistance to the world.
As in dreams, those forces of the subconscious, when taken
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or correlated into those forms that relate to the various phases of the individual, give to that individual the better understanding of self, when correctly interpreted, or when correctly answered.
Forget not that it has been said correctly that the Creator, the Gods and the God of the Universe, speak to man through this individual self. Man approaches the nearer condition of its approach to that field when the normal is at rest; sleep or slumber, and when more of the forces are taken into consideration, and are studied by the individual (not someone else) it is the individual's job, each individual's condition, each individual's position, each individual's relation, each individual's manifestation, each individual's receiving the message from the higher forces themselves, and for each individual to understand if they will study, to show themselves approved.
"In all thy getting, my son, get understanding." [Prov. 4:7] That of Self. When one understands self, and self's relation to its Maker, the duty to its neighbor, its own duty to self, it cannot, it will not be false to man, or to its Maker. Give then more thought, FOR THOUGHTS ARE DEEDS, and are children of the relation reached between the mental and the soul, and has its relation to spirit and soul's plane of existence, as they do in the physical or earth plane. What one thinks continually, they become; what one cherishes in their heart and mind they make a part of the pulsation of their heart, through their own blood cells, and build in their own physical, that which its spirit and soul must feed upon, and that with which it will be possessed, when it passes into the realm for which the other experiences of what it has gained here in the physical plane, must be used.
The attributes of the soul and spirit are as many, and as many more, as the attributes of the physical or mental mind. Each, in the beginning, endowed with that same condition - position. Each, in itself, building to itself, through its development known through the ages, as called from the earth plane, that which is manifest upon the earth. With each development, that force, known upon the plane as WILL, is given to man over and above all creation; THAT force that may separate itself from its Maker, for with the WILL man may either adhere or contradict the Divine law - those immutable laws, as are set between the Creator and the created.
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The study of these, through their phases and forms, and especially through any of those phases, wherein the carnal or material or normal forces are laid aside, and the ever present elements of spirit and soul commune with those of the forces as found in each entity. Study those and KNOW THYSELF.
42. (Q) What is the law of love? (A) Giving. As is given in this injunction, "Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself." As is given in the injunction, "Love the Lord Thy God with all Thine Heart, Thine Soul and Thine Body." In this, as in many, we see upon the physical or earth or material plane the manifestations of that law, without the law itself. With any condition we find as this, which is the manifestation of the opposite from law of love. The gift, the giving, with hope of reward or pay is direct opposition of the law of love. Remember there is no greater than the injunction, "God so loved His Creation, or the World, as to give His Only Begotten Son, for their redemption." Through that love, as man makes it manifest in his own heart and life, does it reach that law, and in compliance of A Law, the law becomes a part of the individual. THAT IS THE LAW OF LOVE. Giving in action, without the force felt, expressed, manifested, shown, desired or reward for that given. Not that the law of love does away with other laws, but makes THE LAW OF RECOMPENSE, THE LAW OF FAITH, THE LAW OF DIVINE, WITH THE LAW OF EARTH FORCES, if you please, of effect, not defective, but of effect.
So we have LOVE is LAW, LAW IS LOVE. GOD IS LOVE. LOVE IS GOD. In that we see the law manifested, not the law itself. Unto the individual, as we have given then, that gets the understanding of self, becomes a part of this. As is found, which come in one, so we have manifestations of the one-ness, of the all-ness in love. Now, if we, as individuals, upon the earth plane, have all of the other elementary forces that make to the bettering of life, and have not love we are as nothing - nothing. "Though one may have the gift of prophesy, so as to give great understanding, even of the graces in Hope, in Charity, in Faith, and has not the law of love in their heart, soul, mind and though they give their body to give itself for manifesting even these graces, and has not love they are nothing." In many, many ways may the manifestations of the law of love be shown, but without the greater love, even as the Father giveth, even as the soul giveth, there is no understanding, and no compliance of the forces that make our later law to this, of effect.
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43. (Q) What is a dream? (A) There are many various kinds of manifestations that come to an animate object, or being; that is in the physical plane of man, which the human family term a DREAM.
Some are produced by suggestions as reach the consciousness of the physical, through the various forms and manners as these.
When the physical has laid aside the conscious in that region called sleep, or slumber, when those forces through which the spirit and soul has manifested itself come, and are reenacted before or through or by this soul and spirit force, when such an action is of such a nature as to make or bring back impressions to the conscious mind in the earth or material plane, it is termed a dream.
This may be enacted by those forces that are taken into the system, and in the action of digestion that takes place under the guidance of subconscious forces, become a part of that force through which the spirit and soul of that entity passed at such time. Such manifestations are termed or called nightmares, or the abnormal manifestations on the physical plane of these forces.
In the normal force of dreams are enacted those forces that may be the fore-shadow of condition, with the comparison by soul and spirit forces of the condition in VARIOUS SPHERES through which this soul and spirit of the given entity has passed in its evolution to the present sphere. In this age, at present, 1923, [See Background of Reading 3744-2] there is not sufficient credence given dreams; for the best development of the human family is to give the greater increase in knowledge of the subconscious, soul or spirit world. This is a DREAM.
44. (Q) How should dreams be interpreted? (A) Depending upon the physical condition of the entity and that which produces or brings the dream to that body's forces.
The better definition of how the interpretation may be best is this: Correlate those Truths that are enacted in each and every dream that becomes a part of this, or the entity of the individual, and use such to the better developing, ever remembering develop means going toward the higher forces, or the Creator.
45. (Q) Definition of the word evolution with reference to the human family: (A) Evolution with reference to the human family.
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Evolution is, as commonly understood by the human family, and upon which there has been much discussion by many peoples, and the question has become one that involves many different phases and meanings to many peoples. Evolution is as reference. In reference to the human family, means rather resuscitation of those forces that have gradually brought man to understand the law of self from within, and by understanding such law has brought the better force in man to bring about the gradual change that has come to man, known through all the ages.
Man was made as man. There was, there is, as we find, only three of the creations as is given, matter, force and mind. In each we find that, in the forces as is developed into the conditions, as we find at the present time. All flesh is not of one flesh, but the developing of one has always remained in the same, and has only been to meet the needs of man, for which there was made all that was made, and man's evolving, or evolution, has only been that of the gradual growth upward to the mind of the Maker.
46. (Q) Is the Darwinian theory of evolution of man right or wrong? Give such an answer as will enlighten the people on this subject of evolution. (A) Man was made in the beginning, as the ruler over those elements as was prepared in the earth plane for his needs. When the plane became that such as man was capable of being sustained by the forces, and conditions, as were upon the face of the earth plane, man appeared not from that already created, but as the Lord over all that was created, and in man there is found that in the living man, all of that, that may be found without in the whole, whole world or earth plane, and OTHER than that, the SOUL OF MAN is that making him above all animal, vegetable, mineral kingdom of the earth plane.
Man DID NOT descend from the monkey, but man has evolved, resuscitation, you see, from time to time, time to time, here a little, there a little, line upon line and line upon line.
In all ages we find this has been the developing - day by day, day by day, or the evolution as we see from those forces as may be manifested by that, that man has made himself the gradual improvement upon the things made by man, yet made to suffice the needs of certain functioning portions of man's will force, as may be manifested by man, but ever remaining that element to supply that need, whether of sustenance or other functions of man's individual needs,
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as created by man, this becoming then the exponent of the force as his Creator made him, for the World, and the needs and conditions, man's compliance nearer with those laws brings him gradually to that development necessary to meet the needs of the conditions, place or sphere in which that individual is placed. As in this:
The needs of those in the North Country not the same as those in the Torrid region. Hence development comes to meet the needs in the various conditions under which man is placed. He only using those laws that are ever and ever in existence in the plane, as is given in that of relativity, that being the needs from one relation to another.
The theory is, man evolved, or evolution, from first cause in creation, and brings forth to meet the needs of the man, the preparation for the needs of man has gone down many, many thousands and millions of years, as is known in this plane, for the needs of man in the hundreds and thousands of years to come. Man is man, and God's order of creation, which he represents even as His son, who is the representative of the Father, took on the form of Man, the highest of the creation in the plane, and became to man that element that shows and would show and will show the way, the directing way, the Life, the Water, the Vine, to the everlasting, when guided and kept in that manner and form.
47. (Q) Where does the soul come from, and how does it enter the physical body? (A) It is already there. "and He breathed into him the breath of life, and he became a living soul", as the breath, the ether from the forces as come into the body of the human when born breathes the breath of life, as it becomes a living soul, provided it has reached that developing in the creation where the soul may enter and find the lodging place.
All souls were created in the beginning, and are finding their way back to whence they came.
48. (Q) Where does the soul go when fully developed? (A) To its Maker.