This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Cambridge Hotel, Apt. 106, 60 West 68th Street, New York City, New York, this 17th day of January, 1925, in accordance with request made by [900].

Present: Edgar Cayce; [900], Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. Cayce, Mrs. Freda Blumenthal and Hugh Lynn Cayce.

TEXT

1. [900]: You will have before you the meeting to be held tomorrow night, for the establishment of a board to form the nucleus of the National Investigators, and a board to conduct the work of the Institute to help humanity. As given, the forces will guide and direct us in this work, and we now seek this advice and guidance. You will give us a letter that may be sent in reply to a first appeal from a stranger to the work for help from this Institute, by which letter we can make the one seeking help understand clearly the requirements which he must fulfill before receiving the help, so that we may judge by the answer to our letter whether the applicant is one who is ready for help from these sources or not. You will give this letter. You will then give us definite advice by which we may be guided in our organization tomorrow night, both regarding Institute matters and the individuals who are to meet to make up this board.
2. EC: Yes, we have these conditions as would relate to such an meeting, and as would be for individual seeking help from and through such forces. Also those conditions as related to Institute and such developments from such work.
3. As to the National Investigators for such work and phenomena, as given, these should begin with their investigations in a clear, definite, understandable, manner for each and every individual who may be interested in receiving the knowledge through such phenomena, for the things that make up the worth while conditions in life, and those relating to physical conditions of individuals who would receive assistance in an understanding of such conditions, these relations, we find, must be made to meet the needs of each individual, and each individual must be made to understand in such an letter the investigation as is being carried on through such an Institute, or through such society, or through such group of individuals that are expecting to receive assistance through the manifestations of such an phenomena. This may be made in the form of a letter, that when such an application is made, the individual, after receiving such information, would compare and report at once those conditions that correlate, or coincide, with the feelings of the individual, and such reports should be filed with one investigating phenomena, and such records kept from time to time, as conditions progress in the understanding of the individual, and individual's understanding of such knowledge from such phenomena. This may be made in form letter, or may be made in personal letter; then form letter following, in such relations to developments.
4. As to meeting, as to individuals, as given, those individuals who themselves have received individual assistance, such that they desire to give self to the developing, to the retaining records of such development, needs be individuals that would associate themselves together for such work. As to names, these mean those who would willingly, without coercion, give themselves.
5. (Q) Those who are expected to meet tomorrow night here, to form such an organization, are they the right persons, and is the idea in the mind of [900] to carry out such work the correct idea for the success of the Institute?
   (A) There are those among those expected that will not be present. There are those who will not be present that should be connected with such development. The ideas as in the mind of [900] regarding such developments are very good, and there would be given through such forces the correct plans for developments as developments progress.
6. (Q) Give the body, [900], advice as to immediate steps now to be taken.
   (A) Begin, and as conditions arise, there will be those of the correct knowledge to further such work.
7. (Q) Are there any barriers by which advice from these forces might help us overcome those barriers of the present time, we are speaking of?
   (A) Begin. Those barriers would remove.

BACKGROUND

1. 12/23/24 See 254-18 in re "birth of A.N.I."
2. 1/16/25 See 900-21; 1/17/25 at 2:10 P.M. see 900-22 subject matter continuation from [3744] series on the MS PSYCHIC PHENOMENA THROUGH THE SUBLIMINAL.

REPORTS

1. 1/18/25 and 1/19/25 See 900-23 and 900-24 subject matter continuation from [3744] Series; 1/21/25 See 900-25 Ditto.
2. 2/02/25 See next Work Rdg. 254-20.

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