This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 28th day of June, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [165], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [165], Mr. [257], Mr. [1196], and Hugh Lynn Cayce.

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you [165], present in this room, and the information received through this channel on May 29, 1937 and June 17, 1937, relative to plans for a school for boys. You will answer the questions which he has prepared on this subject.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [165]; the information that has been given or indicated.
3. This as we find, while it may be expanded upon and there may be a variation in suggestions or outlines, to gain that which is a basic truth or law one must COMMENCE. For there should be, and if there is the proper basic understanding there must be, the basis upon spiritual laws that deal with the individual and the application of spiritual and mental law and truth in their associations.
4. And this, as development, is as a first law. Do first things first, and then - as there is the understanding - the application comes; and day by day it grows not only in import but in purpose and in activity.
5. DO NOT let the vastness or the shadow of what may be the outcome topple the basis or the purposes; for if the basic principles are the correct ones in the foundation, no matter to what heights nor to what extent nor in what great scope of activity it may advance, basic principles being first correct, it would not be over top-heavy.
6. Hence COMMENCE with the associations first in those lines that are in keeping with the abilities of the body, by its own initiative, its own purposes, its own desires.
7. While to be sure in the minds of some to whom approaches will be made there will be a wonderment as to why such a vast amount of time has elapsed in the activities of the entity or body in definite directions, these very conditions may be used as stepping-stones and not stumbling-stones; if there is that humbleness first, that meekness, that is not as subjugated to ideas without ideals but with the courage to do and dare, and sowing the seeds that are of the nature that will bring the same into the experience not only of those who are faulty in a manner but those who are as geniuses in some fields yet are so overshadowed by home, surrounding, environs, or that even oft as of hereditaryship (which is NOT wholly understood) as the study progresses as to individual abilities, individual lives, individual activities.
8. But these are to be studied, as we have indicated, in their proper sphere, their proper environ.
9. For as is understood by the entity, many a Liszt or Mozart is digging ditches or shoveling coal. Many an artist, many a Rembrandt or a Hunt is selling clothes or fooling with stocks or bonds or the like.
10. Hence the main purposes, the greatest stress shall be upon the vocational guidance that is as an analysis of the individual or the individual's or entity's purposes in a given experience.
11. And if these are followed, if these are kept, if these are put in their proper relationships, we will find advances, help, aids.
12. Then, as has been given [165-23], first to Seagrave - or Seabury; (for bury is grave) in that relationship to the DuPont interests. Then to sufficient that comes to the vocational aid from the President and associates, and back to [165].
13. These kept, then, in their activity, these once begun - the great trouble, do not let it overshadow - or too many projects be presented to overcome the first purpose. Not too large a school, but sufficient that each may have physical, mental and spiritual direction.
14. And in the spiritual let it be rather of the psychic but not the ordinary term. For the variation between spiritual or religious experience and psychic experience is:
15. In religious experience one is told WHAT to expect, how to expect and when to expect!
16. In the soul or psychic experience one attunes the God-self to the universal!
17. Hence the application or experience is from within and in communion with the influence of God-force in the individual life.
18. Hence all of these should be taken into consideration. Not as a confusing but rather as given, that the first things are done FIRST!
19. What is the first thing? SELF! and the willingness to give self; willingness to suffer in self in ideas, in the physical surroundings, for an IDEAL! Not merely idealistic but an ideal that requires first COURAGE; the dare to do the impossible.
20. For with God nothing is impossible, and the individual that may give himself as a channel through which the influences of good may come to others may indeed be guided or shown the way. For the influences of such a nature are those that all men seek, and for which there is a great cry in the earth today - and TODAY IS the accepted time!
21. For the harvest is white, but the laborers ARE few!
22. Ready for questions.
23. (Q) Where and how can Judge Seagrave be contacted?
    (A) Samuel Seabury.
24. (Q) Through whom should he be contacted, or go straight to him?
    (A) The purposes, the activities of such an one have been those through which many approaches might be made, but always the direct approach is preferable.
25. (Q) Is he interested in psychic phenomena?
    (A) He is interested in the welfare of the souls of men, but he doesn't know that means psychic phenomena!
    Teach him also!
26. (Q) Should the attempt be made to interest him personally in the school or through him to others?
    (A) Personally and others.
    For the necessity of the activities of the individual for clean living, life in high places and in men of all walks and stages has necessarily fitted and does fit him for the idea of the training first of youth. And this interest is that to be impressed more than the use of or connections with others; yet it gradually leads to the cycle as indicated.
27. (Q) What feature or features of the school should be stressed to attract DuPont interests?
    (A) As has been indicated. Vocational guidance AND the aid to those less fortunate and deficient in one manner or another.
28. (Q) Who of the Reilly [Harold J. Reilly of the Reilly Health Service] theatrical connections should be approached regarding school?
    (A) This will be a matter of rather the afterthought. For these become rather the outgrowth of activities, you see.
    Not forgotten. It is as this:
    Man plants a field of corn. God giveth the increase; the soil produces - but don't forget to plow it and hoe it!
29. (Q) What advice may be given at this time for an outline on a prospectus for the school?
    (A) If that which has been given is followed first, builded first as to how it may be laid out for those purposes indicated, you will have a good outline.
30. We are through with this Reading.

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BACKGROUND

1. 5/29/37, 6/17/37 He obtained rdgs. 165-22 and 165-23 in re establishing a boys' school.
2. 6/28/37 He was present, submitting further questions.

REPORTS

1. 7/05/37 He wrote: "I'm on the trail of Judge Seabury and hope to get to him at once."
2. 7/23/37 He wrote: "The difficulty at Reilly's [Harold J. Reilly's Sun Air Farm, Oak Ridge, N.J.] now in summer is that the wrong class of Jews over-run the place. Gentiles stay away. Have to watch that in the school."
3. 8/10/37 He wrote: "Some definite inquiries re the school are beginning to come in."
4. 8/15/37 He referred 1437-1, saying: "You will be interested in knowing that the Boy Conservation Bureau of N.Y. thinks we have the best set-up and program of any existing boys' school. They promise us in a definite way some of the boys in their charge for the coming year. Their boys pay only about half our figure, but we could well handle some of them.
   "I have just sent another letter to Judge Seabury, but can as yet get no response from him."
5. 8/26/37 He obtained 165-25 on the school.

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