This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 30th day of January, 1925, in accordance with request made by self - [137].

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

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the body of [137], located on the floor ... Streets, New York City, and the enquiring mind of this body. You will also have before you all the readings, or all the information that has come from the Universal Forces to the body, [137], through the body, Edgar Cayce, or through his own manifestations, including information on horoscope, on physical, mental and spiritual. You will also answer questions as I ask them on all of these readings on this given information, in a manner understandable to the mind of [137].
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, and the enquiring mind of this body, with the information as understood by this mind, both as to own interpretation and that as given. There may be much said as to the conditions regarding this information, and the action of such information correlated with that understanding of this body, [137]. These, as given, will be given, that the body, through its own mental forces better understands that relation of self to the forces that be, and the relation of self, through mental and material forces, to others.
3. Ready for questions.
4. (Q) Is this body progressing in his psychic development?
   (A) Progressing in the ability to acquire and retain the manifestations received through psychic forces. The force of psychic is in itself a condition, or state of being, a projection, a condition projected from, to, by, towards, other conditions from given or manifested conditions. The ability to retain manifestations in a consciousness is being developed in this body.
5. (Q) Is the body now living and developing in the will and spirit forces such as the soul of the body need not return to the earth plane?
   (A) This may or may not be. At the present time, moment, yes. The conditions as relate to the development in soul's forces, necessary for the development in earth's plane, relates to the manifested conditions in the entity, both physical and spiritual. The development may reach that plane wherein the entity need not manifest again in the earth's plane. With this entity there is that innate desire to manifest in the earth's plane, for the entity's ability lies in giving to many an understanding as is manifested before men.
6. (Q) Why is this body so often referred to as David (his middle name) rather than as Edwin (his first name) in psychic readings as given by Edgar Cayce?
   (A) The development of the entity is rather in that vibration of David than of Edwin for these two conditions are with the vibration in names: Eddie, Edwin (first name), meaning that of a peacefulness, defender of peacefulness, carrying both the condition and implied forces from same. David, rather that of the gift from the higher forces, or a son of the Father. One, especially, endowed with gifts from the higher forces.
7. (Q) In a reading given on the body January 12, 1925, 137-12 by Edgar Cayce, it was said: "The information as has been given should have been applied more individually in the life and the mind of the body, [137]." Tell me, please, just what the information mentioned is, and how it should be applied as told.
   (A) In this connection, we find this is regarding informa- tion as manifested to the body, individually, [137], in the psychic condition from self, and the information was regarding the price of commodity that the body (physically) was associated with. The information was given by the body, [137], to others. This should have been kept to self and acted upon for self. Then let the physical and mental abilities direct the distribution of same after these funds become a part of the body's possessions. [See 900-40 on 3/04/25.]
8. (Q) On Thursday night, January 15, 1925, as the body Edgar Cayce was about to give a psychic reading 137-12 in Apartment 106 of the Cambridge Hotel, New York City, [137] saw a kind of bright shining star (very brilliant) over the body of Edgar Cayce. It was seen for only a fraction of a second. Explain, please, what this flash was, and what it meant or should mean to the body, [137].
   (A) We do not find this occurring in Apartment 106. The manifestation, though, as seen, or felt, or experienced, by this body, [137], at this time, was that collaboration of the psychic forces meeting together from each vibration, and from the higher developed forces of the body became physical manifestations in this time. This, then, should be the understanding for the body: The strength, the ability, the brightness, the possibility, the exalted forces as are manifested in the body itself, and the manifestations should be reverenced with that association of star to the human mind.
9. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. 1/24/25 Brother [900] submitted questions "by [137] which list I believe you know of and expect."

REPORTS

1. GD's note: See his brother [900]'s readings in date sequence for references to [137]'s development, business, etc.
2. 5/17/25 Mr. [137]'s next reading was physical, 137-14.

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