This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 5th day of December, 1930, in accordance with request made by his mother, Mrs. [...] [wife of [4716]], [5452]''s stepfather, via Mr. [2917] and Mr. [417].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 11:30 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City.
1. GC: You will have before you the body of [5452], who is in his classroom at ... Academy, ..., Mass. You will give a physical, mental and spiritual reading for this body, and any advice that will be of help to his mother in bringing the best for him; how he can adjust himself to life, and what he is best fitted for.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body and those conditions as surround the body, physically, mentally, spiritually.
3. Were conditions to be studied in the proper light, those indications as may be given respecting this body from its associations as related to the continuity of experience would be the better for anyone trying to understand the body.
4. These are conditions as we find them in the present:
5. Here we have presented, in a concrete form, the MYSTERIES of life as related to physical and mental conditions, with the spiritual or the life flow itself moving on in whatever direction is given from the mental and physical body, as is the home or the dwelling place of the ENTITY in the present.
6. While physical conditions do have their effect, in this particular instance there are periods when it is classified by students of same rather as either a mental deficiency or pure hardheadedness or cussedness in the body.
7. Then, in those conditions there are many various things and conditions to be considered in being of help, of aid, to the body in GAINING the proper control or CONCEPT of life in this present experience. The material or physical body must be considered. The mental body must be considered, as well as the relationships as exist between the mental and the material body.
8. In some respects - but unless PROPERLY or CAREFULLY done would not be the better channel, but were it PROPERLY done - the subjugation of the physical consciousness, as would allow the awakening of the UNCONSCIOUS or SUBCONSCIOUS forces of self, with post-suggestions in such periods as to the care of the body-physical AND mental, would be MOST
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helpful, most abiding as to the proper developments. In other respects, being inconsistent to the developing mind were they approached from this channel, there must be considerations OTHER than this.
9. This, then, would be - not a confinement, but - rather as for surroundings of a nature in which the mental and spiritual life is impressed, not so much by precept as by the actual ensample, example, or manner of living by those surrounding the body; and in such a surrounding there should be the dependence of each individual active, that all concerned are dependent one upon the other, for not only the necessities of resuscitation and sustentation of life itself, but for the comforts of, for the propagation of life itself; or there may be that in which the surroundings are gentle, kindly, loving, and such - with an actual medication of a vibratory force as will prevent that tendency of the physical body under strain to emit from the glands of the body, that become so surcharged with their effluvia in their functioning as to throw into the blood stream that which makes for this tendency of aberrations, tendency for exaggerations in ideas, of expression, of manifestations of self, of manifestations of the surroundings of the body.
10. Either of the three will offer an opportunity for the proper development of the body. These must, each, as is seen, be founded upon the basis of gentleness, kindness, lovingness, humbleness - rather than of any other, and the OTHER rather that ACTIVITY that makes for these to become active forces within the physical and mental body of [5452].
11. Incorrigibility is not just a disease, but greater in dis-ease of a whole functioning body attempting to find expressions of that felt innately, manifestedly, materially and mentally, and it MUST find expression or "bust"! This is a condition; a condition to be dealt with. Not by might nor main, but rather by the spirit of truth - which is made manifest in the material affairs of men who would do the biddings of making light and life as one in the world, rather than contention, contempt of self, indulgence of self, praise of, laudation of self's abilities, and such - for these may become such a part of a physical being as to make for the LITTLENESSES as are manifested in a material plane.
12. As to the channels through which this body may find its greater development, BETTER were it set as to first conquering SELF - before any of the material things of life are set as a channel through which the body may find self-expression in a service as would render for successes in life, either as a material, a mental or spiritual basis;
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for, as all are come under the rod, so must all pass into that oneness of life as to make for a DEVELOPMENT that is worthy of self's own activity.
13. Ready for questions.
14. (Q) What place would you suggest placing this body? (A) Dependent upon the character of that which is to be used as a means, and when, where and HOW, may be given when THIS is chosen by those seeking.
15. (Q) Would a life reading on this entity - (A) This has been given. We are through for the present.