This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 5th day of January, 1926, in accordance with request made by her husband, [900].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

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1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of [136] of New York City, and the dreams this body had on the dates which I will give you. You will give the interpretation and lesson to be gained from each of these, as I read same to you, and you will answer the questions I ask you regarding same.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here. We have had this before, [136], with the dreams that have come from time to time. The dreams, we find, have come to this entity for that develop- ment, as has been given, in the body-mind of same. Ready for dream.
3. (Q) Wednesday morning, December 16, 1925. "I was to a house party with many others. One bus - the morning bus seemed to drive right up to the house, another, the one leading away, left from way below the cliff on which the house was located. Jagged stones, in step form led down to this outgoing bus. I decided suddenly to go home - I wanted to go home badly, so I rushed out and jumped off the cliff, catching myself one-half way down the stone steps. I made the bus, got on and was glad to be going home. I noticed S. and a whole crowd of college girls in the other bus, up next to the house, climb in noisily - all clamoring."
   (A) In this as is seen there are lessons being gained by the entity, as is seen in the recognition of all as college girls. The house party presents or represents that a special station, state or stop, as it were, in the education or development of the mental forces, is to take place in the mind. This is then presented in a manner as to how the entity would reach this conclusion towards going home, taking a sudden leap into that place where there has seemed to be before one of jagged stones, rocks, one of conditions hard to be understood by the entity. Yet, seemingly, it is the only mode, way or manner in which the entity may gain that portal that is desired in self. The seeing of others that make much noise is as but the clamor to the mental forces of entity from others that know the entity has embraced such a position or condition in its mental forces. It is a presentation, then, of conditions to arise in the life and mind, or mind of the entity becoming or being made a portion of the life. It refers, then, to the mental attitude of the entity toward conditions that had apparently been obnoxious, see?
4. (Q) "Ma was showing someone our house - the parlor, then the bedroom."
   (A) This presents the coming to the entity of someone that would occupy these places.
5. (Q) Have these conditions already occurred?
   (A) Already occurred.
6. (Q) Thursday night, December 17. "Heard [900] say 'Goodbye!'"
   (A) This is the presentation of that condition in the mind of the entity through the subconscious forces of conditions that mean, as it means to the body-mind, "goodbye" from the entity. This has also happened in the life, see?
7. (Q) "Saw 4 aces and numbers in between, as follows:

   2 3 4
ACE 2 ACE 3 ACE 4 ACE
2 3 4

   (A) This is the presentation to the entity of that force exercised in numbers, and will be presented again in a different form for the entity's consideration. As is seen, One is the center, or the One Force. Two is that multiple of same with the division. Three is the force that is magnified in One - Two - see? with the One always giving the force, the power, or the magnified force of the number. Four is the half, or the double unit of Two, with its weaknesses, with those conditions as have been presented in numbers; yet the One showing, as always, the central force of strength, power or union.
8. (Q) Monday night, December 19. "Out loud so [900] heard: 'No, [900], - I'm fifty-one, not eighteen - you've got me as 18 - I'm not that - I'm 51.'"
   (A) This again is the presentation of the numbers five, one - six - one, eight - nine, see? and not as the nine the sufficient, the ending, the whole, as it were, of all forces as combined in the unit of numbers, but as the six, the multiple of the three unit in its action, and the entity SEES self - as the six; not as nine. That is, not as stable within self as the nine should imply.
9. (Q) Tuesday night, December 22. "Dreamed my Aunt H. bought a pair of black shoes and paid $95.00 for them."
   (A) The unreasonableness to the mind of the transaction, the unreasonableness of conditions which are to be existent in the life of the entity from that same reasoning standpoint. Lesson: Make a spiritual application of same, rather than material. Meaning, then, as of old: The usage of that necessary for the better development of self in any price is equal to that given out. For to obtain, that must be given that would be obtained.
10. (Q) Friday night, December 25, or Saturday morning, December 26. "Saw our shower bath sheet fall down. Spoke out loud so [900] heard: 'Pick up that sheet.'"
    (A) This indicates the physical forces are going under that strain of that necessary cleansing of mind to that building of the spiritual forces, as is presented in physical of the shower sheet, see?
11. (Q) "Was given the names to give my baby when born, just as [900] said God would tell one of us. That is, I was given the name to give the baby if it was a boy and also the name if it is a girl. I cannot remember the names given me but I do remember that in both cases the names were short and euphonious with our surname. Recall the names given me and tell me what these manes mean or imply as regards the coming child."
    (A) This, as we see, is the physical mind weighing that condition in the subconscious mind, with the physical development of the body in self, with the consciousness doubting that condition which develops towards the sex. Then, as the names may be as either, then, these again in their fullness of the making in self that desire of the sex, will bring that name to the entity, see? and these will come in the way and manner, just as has been given regarding the conception. Conception is a fact, see? The consciousness of the fact to the individual representing, then, the conscious condition being presented to the mental body-mind. Now there is presented the fact of the sex. Then the body-mind is conscious of the condition as to sex. Then the name will be presented in that same way and manner, see?
12. (Q) Names in both cases of boy or girl given. When and how do the sex forces operate - i.e. how does 'Spirit Action' determine sex and at what stage?
    (A) The sex is determined at the period of the first movement of the embryo, and occurs in the first three weeks of conception, and the spirit action in same is as same takes life in the form of the union of the portions that grow to the physical being, see?
13. (Q) Does spirit action ever change the sex of an entity from one incarnation to another?
    (A) At times. Depending upon that builded in the entity in the earth's plane, for as seen, will's force (of earth, see?) is the ruling factor. That builded in the earth's plane, then, is that upon which the soul and spirit feeds. Truly has it been said, "As a tree falls so shall it lie." Then, that builded in that as the desire becoming that action in the incarnation. For, as we find in this entity here, from which the reasoning forces have been given, the two may build into same through that as has been given, that entity which the spirit force has given, see?
14. (Q) The operation now going on within or through me is the phenomenization of certain spiritual faculties into that state called Man. Correct?
    (A) Correct.
15. (Q) [900] and I are watching the phenomenon - i.e. the phenomenization of certain faculties to form flesh Man just as we also see the phenomenon of the disintegration of the phenomenized forces into the elemental - (such is birth and death, is it not?) - will you give us that helping cue that will aid us in better understanding the activity of the spirit forces now so intimately related to both of us?
    (A) This, as we see, there may be the volumes concerning same, see? The greater truths may be builded from these, see? In the conception of the spirit force that becomes the phenomenized physical force in the material world, the building of that body, that mind, partakes of those impressions as the life blood flows into the physical being, that that being may be that channel through which the manifestation of that spirit manifests in the material world. And as to these bodies, there is presented a beautiful flower - in some surroundings beautiful, in others - not so good - in others obnoxious. Then that body that represents that surrounding, that channel through which the spirit force of the all spirit force manifests.
    Then, build in manner, build in act, build in word, in deed, those surroundings that will bring to that entity that ability of manifesting the spirit forces with the least resistance to the fleshly conditions. For if flesh builds into flesh, how may spirit manifest? Spirit builded into a home, house, prepared for its reception may manifest its light abroad, see? for, as we see here, in its present condition, there may be given the full outline of the development of this entity, as it may manifest, wavered by those conditions that are to be enacted in the minds and bodies of these upon whom this entity depends for its physical existence in the next eight to ten weeks. [2/13/26 Her mother [139] died and Mrs. [136] was able to go to the funeral, although she was just out of the hospital following surgery, a miscarriage, etc.]
16. We are through for the present with this reading.

REPORTS

1. 1/05/26 Dreams submitted by her husband [900] which did not get interpreted:
   "12/28/25 or 12/29/25: Something about the numbers '32 and 90.'
   "Saw [900] being married to another girl, deserting me. I appealed to his mother [106] and she said, 'No, I see no reason to stop him if he wants to marry her.' 'But, I love him,' I replied. She was homely and a big blond. [900] married her and I attended the wedding. Then I wanted [900] to divorce her and remarry me because I simply adored him. But that was not consented to. I saw her sit in a chair, smoke a cigarette, as she prayed to God. She was despicable to me." [GD's note: This last dream may have been a forewarning of events which took place about five years later. [900] did desert [136] for a chubby, blondish redhead, [3734]. [136] possibly could have avoided it if she had been 'big enough' spiritually to eliminate spite, etc., of which she was warned in her Life Reading [See 136-1]. Instead she fought it out in the courts and obtained custody of their son [142] who was born 4/04/27.]

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