This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 20th day of April, 1926, in accordance with request made by his brother, Mr. [900].

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

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1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of [137], of ... St., N.Y. 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 which I will ask you regarding same.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, here. This we have had before. The dreams come in that way and manner as have been outlined that the entity receive same. Ready for dream.
3. (Q) April 12 or 13, 1926. Was wearing my brown suit and got a big ink stain on my lapel. I felt the suit was ruined, which was a shame, as it hadn't been worn much. The spot was caused by my fountain pen. When I awakened I wondered why I hadn't thought of sending the suit to the dry cleaners and thus removed the stain.
   (A) In this there is presented to the entity, in this emblematical manner, those conditions and elements that are as the action, or the position, in mental way and manner, the entity holds in the life. The way and manner of being spoilt is as is seen or presented by the ink spot from the pen. This again presenting, then, that this way and manner of being spoilt is through a way of thinking, or the mental again. As there is seen there in the consciousness, the entity wonders why there was not the thought and reason of how to cleanse or to correct same. Then, as this warning is presented, is as that the entity may, consciously, take thought of that as is being gained, and not cast aside as being worthless that which would prove the greater blessing to self.
4. (Q) Night of April 16 or Saturday morning, April 17, 1926. I was back on the old outdoor curb. Trading was quite active and seemed to be mixed in price movement, some going up, some down. I went to a soda fountain to get my lunch, as I sometimes do now. I went to the clerk but he was different from the one I now go to and when I gave my order to him he was very slow and gave me the wrong order. While I was eating, Eilmstein, who was on the curb with me, and is now on the Stock Exchange, came in. I said to him and someone else: "The difference between the curb and the stock exchange is that when the market turns on the latter, prices rise faster, higher and more actively than they now seem to be doing on the curb." Eilmstein shrugged his shoulders, doubtfully, as if it mattered little.
   (A) In this there is presented for the study of the entity, as it were, (or in gaining the lesson from same needs be that entity study same) but there is presented in this emblematical manner, that as is being carried through the body conscious mind, and, as is seen, this is correlated in the subconscious, or reasoning is seen therein. The conditions as are enacted before the body-mind, through the vision and dream, are as conditions as have existed, and the entity reasons same in the subconscious here, rather, as being true, WITHOUT the reason of same being true. Now, in the body conscious, or physical mind, nominally, or consciously, the entity may reason on these conditions and gain some concept of why such conditions exist, and were those conditions as previously existed with entity, in the study of the stocks in curb and in exchange taken in consideration, consciously, with the existing conditions as are being enacted the mighty fluctuations - the changes as are seen between the curb market and the exchange floor at the present time, not only in prices but in activity, there may be some conception gained to the entity, and that will be of benefit to the entity as to how, why, things change as they do on the floor, and the difference, as is seen, will be in the leaders, or those who hand out, as is seen in the clerk to whom the entity approaches for the food.
   Then, in studying these, there may be gained the better lesson as to how to apply self in the way and manner of gaining the conception of what will be the outcome of such transactions.

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