This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 20th day of June, 1943, before the Twelfth Annual Congress of the Association, in accordance with request made by those present.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Evelyn Hoag; David, Lucille, S. David and Richard Kahn; Kathryn Baird, Elsie Sechrest, Frank and Margaret Klepper, Beatrice and Richmond Seay, Mildred Tansey, Esther Wynne, Kathryn Patterson, Elizabeth Krohn, Marsden Godfrey, Malcolm H. Allen, Lane Mellinger, Florence Edmonds, Beverly and Riley Simmons, Mae Verhoeven, Louis and Marguerite A. Poss, Ruth Holland, Edgar and Ethel Parry, Frances Y. Morrow, Hannah and Noah Miller, Ruth and Jeanne LeNoir, Eulalie Scott, Xenobia Welch, Gladys Dillman, Jane Williams, and others - including Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 3:45 to 4:10 P. M. Eastern War Time.
1. GC: You will have before you the conditions in the world today, and that needed by those seeking advice in helping to construct a permanent basis for international peace founded upon understanding of one another's economic, social and spiritual problems. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have - as we have had before - those problems which have brought about the upheavals and the wars, the distrust, the jealousy, the hate existing today. These are the result of man's forgetting God, and that which truly represents man's sincere attempt to worship, honor and glorify a living God.
3. For this may only be done in the manner in which individuals, states, nations, treat their fellow man. For, as ye do unto others, ye do to thy Maker. And when those activities are such as to dishonor thy fellow man, ye dishonor thy God - and it brings all of those forms of disturbance that exist in the world today.
4. As for the individuals here - peace must begin within self before there may be the activity or the application of self in such a manner as to bring peace in thine own household, in thine own heart, in thine own vicinity, in thine own state or nation. And only one agreement: Worship God in a manner that is in keeping with the dictates of thy conscience.
5. Thus - nothing new, nothing strange; yet on Friday next
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strange things will happen, that will determine as to how long, as to how many, as to what will be necessary [See 3976-28, Par. R1]. These are thoughts and activities of men, but are as the mind and the body in the individual. When there has been rebellion in the body of sufficient of the cells to set up resistance, illness begins.
6. When there has been in the earth those groups that have sufficiently desired and sought peace, peace will begin. It must be within self.
7. The same is true in economic conditions. He that saith he loveth God and seeth his neighbor in need of food or a coat, and saith "Go in peace - God be with thee," and does nothing about same, is a liar and a thief, wherever he may be; is false to self and will one day create those things that will bring discontent and disputations in the earth.
8. Ready for questions.
9. (Q) Is there any indication of the time at which hostilities will cease between this country and Italy, Germany? Japan? (A) These are [dependent on] the thoughts and principles of men. They will be able to determine much as regards more than one, by the 25th of June. [Decisions in re labor unions? See EC's letter under 1561-21, Par. R11 on 11/22/43. See also 3976-28, Par R1.]
10. (Q) Could a suggestion be made as to the major problems which will confront us in the making of the peace? (A) Differences of opinions in the different religious groups, as well as the economic conditions in the varied land, will be those things that will cause greater disputations. As for this own land, more turmoils will be in and following peace - not immediate - than there are in the present. These will be turmoils from within. Lack of godliness in the hearts of some of those that direct the affairs of groups.
11. (Q) What could our own country be doing toward equalizing opportunities for trade among the nations immediately following the war? (A) In some quarters too much is being done already! These are the things over which many disputes will arise. But there must first come some basis for an economic situation in ALL lands, in those that are a part of the united effort against what is called aggression, as well as the conditions in those lands over which those devastating activities have come in every form. Food, clothing, and all of those things that make the heart of man - as man - afraid.
12. (Q) Will we move toward a lowered tariff?
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(A) In many directions, yes.
13. (Q) Will it be possible to maintain a fair standard of living for our own people while helping to raise economic standards in other parts of the world? (A) Not only MUST it be possible, it MUST be DONE! if there will be ANY lasting peace! But it must begin in the hearts and minds of individuals. For it is as just given. As the vital cells of the body - when they have rebelled, and caused sufficient others to do likewise, destruction sets in.
14. (Q) Would it be feasible to work out an international currency, or an international stabilization of exchange values? (A) This, too, will be worked toward. It will be a long, long time before established. There may indeed be another war over just such conditions, but it'll be a step in the right direction - in the attempts in bringing peace at this time.
15. (Q) How might we cooperate in setting up an international police force in such fashion that our recent enemies will not be antagonized? (A) These have expected same, and unless some such IS created, they will ever feel they have won the war, no matter how much they declare their willingness to quit!
16. (Q) Can the re-education of the German people in the principles of democracy be conducted in such fashion that their own cooperation will be enlisted? How? (A) This depends upon from what standard. Who would set the standard for the democratic education of a Germany who considers itself ALREADY more wise than all the democracies! Rather teach them GOD, and how to search and find Him, and apply His principles in dealing with their fellow man.
17. (Q) Should educational materials be prepared ahead of time, and if so by what sort of representative group? (A) We do not find this altogether feasible, without there having already been preconceived ideas by those who set themselves up as little gods to tell the others what to do. This is not democracy. But teach them God, and first, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God as thyself, and thy neighbor as thyself, with thy heart, with thy mind, with thy purpose." But so long as there is the gospel sent with the jug and a bullet, you will not teach them God.
18. (Q) Since we are fighting for the freedom of all races, what suggestions could you give us toward effecting greater equality of opportunity for minority groups in our own country? (A) As indicated in the first, all groups must have their representation and their privileges, that they - too - may have the opportunity. Unless we begin within our own selves
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and our own household, we are false to ourselves and to the principles that we attempt to declare. By setting classes or masses against other groups - this is NOT brotherly love.
19. (Q) Would it be wise at this time, before hostilities cease, for the United States to rescind the Japanese exclusion act in favor of proportionate immigration such as we permit from other countries? (A) WHO made me judge over my fellow man? When ye do, ye have given away half thy land!
20. (Q) Could you suggest any other move which would help to validate our immediate international good will? (A) How was international good will described with such as in the land of the Hittites and the Hivites? This is a good judgement. Better let 'em come again! [Josh. 9; Josh. 11] [Euthanasia? Reincarnation?]
21. We are through for the present. t.