This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 12th day of April, 1944, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [4083], through Dr. Ernest Weltmer, 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 11:10 to 11:40 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Idaho.
1. GC: You will have before you [4083], born September 26, 1888, near Hagerstown, Maryland, who seeks a mental and spiritual reading with information, advice and guidance as to his mental and spiritual welfare. You will answer the questions he submits as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known and called [4083].
3. In giving that as we find may be helpful for the entity, it will be for this entity well that there be given the sources or the reasons and the premises from and for which such information may be drawn.
4. In analyzing body, mind, soul, all phases of an entity's experience must be taken into consideration. In analyzing the mind and its reactions, oft individuals who would psychoanalyze or who would interpret the reactions that individual entities take, leave out those premises of soul, mind, body.
5. As we would give, an entity body-mind was first a soul before it entered into material consciousness. Individual entities become aware in a material world of the earth as a three-dimensional consciousness, having its concept or its analysis of good or of Creative Forces or God in a three-dimensional concept, God, the Father, the Son; the Christ the mind, the soul the first cause of an individual entity as it may become aware or conscious in a three-dimensional or material world.
6. Just so may the soul-entity become aware in the other dimensions, which is indicated when this entity tries to interpret the reactions of a physical and a mental being by its experiences in an unconscious or in a dream state.
7. Just as these are judgments of an entity outside of itself so is there often left out that which is the motivative influence.
8. For as you look at or analyze yourself, you find that you
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have a body-physical with all its attributes. It is in itself combined of flesh, and bone, nerve tissue. Yet the motivative forces through same are the connections in the central nervous system to which the organs of the central body respond. The central nerve and blood supply are in general heart, liver, lungs and kidneys and then there is the general sympathetic nervous system. These control the activities of the organs of the central nerves only in conjunction with or coordinating with the activities of the central nervous system or cerebrospinal system. Then there are those activities in the three-dimensional experience of the senses themselves, through which this sympathetic system receives its impressions. Again we have the three-dimensional idea or pattern. All of these in the body are dependent one upon another and the variations that cause the characteristics or the personality or individuality of each entity to vary according to the reaction that is brought into play in the mind. For remember, mind is ever the builder. Mind is represented in the Godhead as the Christ, the Son, the Way. The Father is represented in the earth as the body. The soul is all of those attributes that manifest in the body.
9. For if you will read the Book of Revelation with the idea of the body as the interpretation, you will understand yourself and learn to really analyze, psychoanalyze, mentally analyze others. But you will have to learn to apply it in self first. For the motivating force in each one of those patterns represented, is that which the individual entity entertains as the ideal. This is the motivating spirit, the motivating purpose. When it is out of attune, or not coordinating with the First Cause, there may not be the greater unfoldment. For, it is in self that it becomes out of attune. It loses its power or ability. It loses creative energy or its hold upon the First Cause that is the Creator or God.
10. Through what channels do these approach the activity? Through mind! Mind as a stream, not mind as purely physical or as wholly spiritual, but it is that which shapes, which forms, which controls, which directs, which builds, which acts upon. Just as the loss of the sense of sight may attune the touch to such degrees as for the soul to give, to see, to interpret. Just as the loss of hearing. Anyone may attune to the other senses in body.
11. So, will not the loss in self of the ideal in one direction make for greater attunement in another direction, or for the greater stumblingstone? For individuals who have lost any of the senses as of touch, sight, feeling or what
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not, and condemn, become, as it were, dependent upon a confusion, a disillusionment, or they become a leech upon others who would find or show the way.
12. So in the activities of an individual entity, in mind or the mental and spiritual, we find that the mental and spiritual must be in accord with that First Cause in order that it may bring into the material consciousness that which is in accord with the divine purpose. For no soul enters consciousness perchance. For it is indeed true that each entity, each soul, enters into consciousness by and through the grace of the Creator. Compare it with the activity in self: A thought enters the mind. You either entertain it or you discard it. If you discard it, it has little or no effect and yet because you discard it doesn't make or cause the thought to be less productive had it been entertained.
13. So, as in the self, whether the individual entity or soul entertains its relationship to the Creative Forces or not, the relationship is still existent or possible. For indeed in Him, the Father-God, ye move and have thy being. Act like it! Don't act like ye think ye are a God! Ye may become such, but when ye do ye think not of thyself. For what is the pattern? He thought it not robbery to make Himself equal with God, but He acted like it in the earth. He made Himself of no estate that you, through His grace, through His mercy, through His sacrifice might have an advocate with that First Cause, God; that first principle, spirit.
14. What are you doing about it? In thine own self ye will find that it is thine self. Selfishness is the basic sin and the soul that sins shall die. What are you going to do about it? His life is offered rather that ye may apply the principles of truth, patience, longsuffering, brotherly love, kindness, gentleness. For if ye would be forgiven, ye must forgive. These are unchangeable laws. Thy body, thyself is the temple of the living God. That is all the God ye may know, that which ye apply in thy relationship to thy fellow man. For the manner in which ye (as an individual entity, a body, a mind, a soul) treat thy fellow man is the manner in which ye treat thy Maker. Remember that what ye sow, thine own soul, thine own entity, thine own mind, thine own body must reap. Ye are already in eternity, thy soul has been since the beginning. What are ye doing about it? Are you using it?
15. Ready for questions.
16. (Q) What are the reasons that the entity so often has felt that he has been unable to make full use of his mental and emotional powers?
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(A) Lack of finding its own ideal, or the setting of thine own self as that which must be gratified.
17. (Q) Why has his memory seemed poor - when he really has a very good memory - and he has seemed unable to develop original ideas? (A) Have ye used thy memory as a creative thing? Only that which is creative grows. Thy memory, remember is as the Way has given: "if ye apply thyself, I will bring to thy remembrance all things since the foundation of the world." What is lacking? It is thine own coordinating of thy mind, thy body, thy soul-purpose to the first cause, the first principle, love. For God so loved the world that He gave His own, His own Son that ye, as an individual, might have access to the Father.
18. (Q) What has caused the emotional instability? (A) Just as indicated.
19. (Q) Psychoanalytically speaking, what is the entity's emotional age? (A) About two months.
20. (Q) Is there an Oedipus complex in the entity's psychology? (A) Read rather that as has been given. Ye are looking for the material. Clean out thy temple. Open it to the powers that are thine. For ye realize, or should, that ye are conscious, that the Father-God hath need of thee.
21. (Q) Is there some emotional reason for the entity's frequent "clearing" of his throat? (A) Read that indicated to thee as to how there is need for the perfect unison between Father, Son and Holy Spirit. There must be perfect unison between body, mind and soul, if the physical would be in accord. As ye know, there must be perfect accord between the central nervous system, the sympathetic nervous system and the sensory nervous system if there would be perfect accord. It's a wonder you don't vomit more often than you do!
22. (Q) What are the reasons that the entity has not found happiness in his marriage? (A) Ye are seeking the gratification of thyself. Suppose God, suppose Christ had done that same for Himself, where would you be?
23. (Q) Psychoanalytically speaking, does the entity have a split personality? (A) It has a split desire rather than personality. The individuality lacks stability. With the individuality being stabilized in an ideal that takes hold upon the infinite, the possibilities of the entity are unlimited, but self gets in the way and becomes the stumblingblock.
24. (Q) To what extent have childhood home influences
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incapacitated the entity for a normal, happy marriage? (A) Just as much as the individual entity lets it have. For when ye were a child, ye thought as a child, but when ye became a man ye should have put away childish things and not blamed others for same. For each soul is an entity, body, mind, soul. If it will use its will, in applying the fruits of the spirit to those conditions about it, the entity may attune itself to the infinite. If it attempts to abuse such, the entity pays the price. Just as ye may see about thee. As a tree grows you may bear it and use it and grind it in the shape desired. So may an individual entity, as it is trained, grow. It has those complexes but it also has its own individuality, and apple trees don't produce peaches, neither does a son of Satan produce saints. But ye are the son of the Almighty, the Creative Forces, even as Satan. Whose side are you on? Ye alone can determine! Will ye?
25. (Q) Have any adolescent experiences incapacitated the entity for a normal, happy marriage? (A) Read what has been given. All of thy problems are here within self. Know, as has been indicated, all of the world (as ever has been, as ever will be) is represented in thee, thine own self. Look within. There ye will find the answer to every problem. Ye cannot ask a question that ye cannot answer within thine own self, if or when ye attune thyself to the infinite. Thy soul is eternal, thy soul-mind is eternal. Will ye as a child of the Most High listen to the voice within? For He has promised to meet thee within thyself if and when you attune to that. How? By the manner in which ye treat thy wife, the manner in which ye treat thy friend, the manner in which ye treat thy enemy. For the Lord, thy God is not mocked and thy troubles arise within thyself. Attune thyself to the God within. Begin with that which is best expressed in Deuteronomy 30 and in Exodus 19:5. There you may begin and you will find the answer if you will make of thyself not a slave, no, but one in accord with His will. For the knowledge of God, the Father is that which indeed sets thee free.
26. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file " under case number for indexing