This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at Phillips Hotel, Room 115, Dayton, Ohio, this 4th day of January, 1924, in accordance with request made by self - [4208], via Mr. C. S. Willmott.
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 3:20 P. M. ..., Oklahoma.
1. EC: Now, we find the abnormal conditions with this body are from various conditions that have existed, and to exist in the physical forces and the mental shall be brought as much into the developing for the physical to gain its equilibrium must gain most through the attitude the body takes toward physical conditions of self, and of those conditions that surround the physical, to gain the better forces for the body. While we have physical conditions that are of the physical-physical, yet the condition through self will gain the greater forces to give the incentives for the physical to become whole, or to function in the normal way. This condition we find then must come first from within, and the body through its mental forces gain the consciousness of its own condition, and the attributes of the mental with the nerve system, and how this may control the circulation, the assimilation, and those of the system that have to do with the subconscious soul forces of the body, that the force within self, through physical rest and the at-oneness with those of the higher forces, attuned with the spirit of self, may work within and give the full understanding of self, and how this self may raise its own forces, and not be continually blaming existing conditions upon others, but meet them with its own conscious self, knowing that conditions are of one's own forces to be worked out by self to its own development, and with this, the study of those things and conditions that are of the spiritual making and understanding, will give control of self. Control self then through its own understanding, and its own appetites, and give of self more to developing of others with its own knowledge as obtained, for this one would well understand that what we give enriches us rather than what we receive, and the account of one's self in every work is the ability to give unto others in this knowledge and understanding, and these words study. To understand self-condemnation, what does it mean? Give then the understanding of self, and add to the surrounding forces first that of understanding, of love, of virtue, of knowledge, of faith, of the forces from
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within, as directed and guided by that ever-sourceful force that gives and takes away, and present thyself holy and acceptable unto Him who maketh none afraid.