This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at Phillips Hotel, Room 115, Dayton, Ohio, this 24th day of May, 1924, in accordance with request made by self - [4157].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Linden Shroyer, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born March 17, 1901, at New York, N.Y. Time of Reading 11:30 A. M. New York, N.Y.
1. LS: You will give a mental reading only for this body, giving the mental aspects of the life, with reference to those things that are detrimental and to those things that may develop the body mentally. You will answer all questions which I will ask you relative to the mental portion of this entity.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, and those conditions that have to do with the mental and the developing of same, and in giving the development for weal or woe of this mental condition in this entity, as manifested thus far and as may be made a part of this earthly sojourn in its development for good or bad, we have many conditions to be considered, and many aspects or views from which it may be approached in giving this development.
3. We find one of the natural tendency to be contradictory within itself. One that thinks much of praise of self and abilities, and one that must then ever guard against selfishness within itself, and one that has many abilities toward many various phases of this earth's development in mental things, especially in those of the art and such manner of developments, especially the arts pertaining to that of the higher or applied arts, and one also given to the developing of the mental towards anything pertaining to the higher association of moral law, pertaining to the international conditions with relativity of conditions existing between racial prejudices as exhibited in the intermingling of various stages of the world's development at this time.
4. One whose greater mental vision will be gained by first learning to control self, for we have many contradictory signs as relation to the astrological aspects of the entity, which makes often the contradictory element between the mental of the earthly plane nature and that of a spiritual nature. Hence the mental should ever for its best development give of itself toward those that are of the spiritual development, for no true development comes save through that of the spiritual nature, whether of material or
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of the mental related to spiritual.
5. These are the conditions as we find in the mental abilities and their relations to a material world at this time.
6. (Q) To what mental stimuli does this body respond to more readily? (A) The spiritual nature of any given condition, especially in its relation to individual as treated as given as that of the mental vision of a given condition, or of one given relation existing between those of a mixed character, when related to national or nations' viewpoint of conditions, and the stimuli that is necessary for the developing of this mental in this entity, [4157], we are speaking of, is to submerge self in that of the answering spiritual insight as is found in sober thought.
Learn well this lesson for this entity. Act not on snap judgement but rather weigh any given condition in self's inner mental vision when alone before passing on any given condition. Act, as it were, on second thought, with due consideration of self being obliterated from the condition.
7. (Q) What life's work is the mental of this body best suited? (A) We have given it.
8. (Q) Have you anything further to say regarding this body? (A) As an individual, follow these. As an ensample, or as what might be given, we have much.
9. We are through.