This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of David E. Kahn, 44 West 77th St., Apt. 14-W, New York City, this 18th day of April, 1936, in accordance with request made by those present.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [261], Mr. [914], Hugh Lynn Cayce, Mildred Raible, and Lucian Warner.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 3:45 to 4:10 P. M. Eastern Standard Time.
1. GC: You will have before you members of the Economic Research Committee of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., some of whom are present in this room. It is their desire periodically to secure information through this channel pertaining to general economic conditions and trends of mass thought and action both here and abroad, with particular reference to the effects of such conditions and mass thought and action on individuals in this country. It is their further desire to give the information received such publicity as will make its use generally beneficial. You will advise and direct them as to how best to conduct such a series of readings, what types of information should prove most beneficial and how best to make the information available. You will answer questions.
2. EC: Yes, we have the desires of those present relative to conditions general and specific.
3. In considering such a subject and in the approach to same, seeking through such a channel, this should be done with first the nature or the approach of such information and as to how helpful same may be in the experience of individuals.
4. It is, then, with a great deal of forethought that such would be attempted, not only from the viewpoint of the characters that may be presented in such information from period to period; but each individual as an individual must assume a great obligation upon his own part.
5. For to know and not to do, to him it becomes sin.
6. Hence in such an approach, they each should weigh well in the balance as to whether there are ulterior motives or whether they are of the nature that is rather just wonderment, and with little thought or idea of what such information might put upon them as individuals. And again as to whether such would be used for that of personal gain, or is it to be given to all who would in themselves seek?
7. For, as has ever been given from old, they that set
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themselves in array must either choose to serve those in high places or to serve mankind as a whole.
8. These questions, these considerations, should first be determined, then, in the mind, in the heart of each that may seek.
9. Then there comes the how, or in what manner may these be given that would be of a helpful, hopeful nature to the seeker, as well as to what would such a seeker do with that as may be given AS information that is affecting and will affect not only themselves but their fellowman.
10. Through those channels of that organization, then, or through ANY that in sincerity seek by their own equipment or enquirement, or their sincerity, such information should be given to those that ASK for same. But with those same warnings that he that uses same for his own personal aggrandizement DOES so to his OWN undoing.
11. Ready for questions.
12. (Q) Explain from what sources this information may be obtained. (A) Conditions, thoughts, activities of men in EVERY clime are things; as thoughts are things. They make their impressions upon the skein of time and space. Thus, as they make for their activity, they become as records that may be read by those in accord or ATTUNED to such a condition. This may be illustrated in the wave length of the radio or of such an activity. They (the activities, etc.) go upon the waves of light, upon that of space. And those instruments that are ATTUNED to same may hear, may experience, that which is being transmitted. Hence do not in seeking CONFUSE thyself that there may not be variations as to the interpretations of economic influences or forces that are being enacted in the thought and activity of varied groups. Just as either [ether?] program may be sent from any given activity. The outer world is only an activity of the shadow world.
13. (Q) Give the proper suggestion for establishing the highest possible contacts for each reading. (A) This depends upon that source, that station, that activity that is to be interpreted. For each influence is set as has been given; as a consciousness of this, that or the other land. And those in authority or the greater influence of that group or nation are then as a unit, as a station. And these then would be merely the contact of that which is the UNIVERSAL consciousness of America, Canada, Britain, Italy, France, Japan, the East, the West, or what not.
14. (Q) How frequently should readings be given?
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(A) If such a GROUP USES same PROPERLY, they may only be altered by how well that as may be given is applied in the experience of the seeker. For to have, to know and not do, not to make practical, not to make active, becomes (such information) as stumblingblocks. What read ye, how interpret ye that which prompted this land in its separating itself or binding itself for a functioning in the affairs, the experiences of man? What prompted that? What prompted that binding of themselves in an activity? THESE become the basic forces in the economic relations of a peoples of any nation. There has arisen and there is arising in the affairs and the experiences of man everywhere the necessity of there being not so much the consideration of a land as of all lands as a unit. For MANKIND is his brother, and thou ART thy brother's keeper. The closest there has come [to] the laying of an IDEAL was when those nations, those representatives of many nations sat as in council. And yet man's greed, man's fear of his own self, so entered in that it became as a stumblingblock for the world. And there has arisen from same those influences, those forces that have become crystallized in the minds of individuals that have gathered about themselves and crystallized into activity such an influence that soon there must be a reckoning. For again has the Prince of Peace been CRUCIFIED upon the ALTAR, the cross of greed!
15. We are through for the present. Copy to Mr. [261] " " [914] " " [641] " " Ass'n file