This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 15th day of July, 1928, in accordance with request made by those present.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Morton H. Blumenthal, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. Cayce, Hugh Lynn Cayce, Mr. L. B. Cayce, Thomas B. House, Jr., and Dr. Thos. B. House.

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1. MHB: You will have before you the work of the Association of National Investigators, Inc., and the Board of Directors governing same. You will direct this Board, both individually, in regard to each individual's relation to it, and collectively, in regard to the responsibility of the Board in this undertaking of the Association. You will instruct Blumenthal and Kahn, and Wyrick, and Bradley, and Brown, and Cayce, and each of the rest, just what it is that the Forces seek the Association to materialize in the work that the Forces seek to accomplish through the Association. You will then answer questions that I will ask you regarding it.
2. EC: Yes, we have those conditions, aims, purposes, and the work as set forth in that which has been termed Association of National Investigators, Incorporated, with its officers, and that which should be accomplished through these channels.
3. It has been given, in that which has been maintained in information supplied concerning such an association, the aims, the endeavors, and that which should be accomplished in same. Much may be said pertaining to the work to be accomplished, and many various phases of same are then to be considered, would the greater work, the greater efforts, be expended in the work of the Association.
4. Its aim, its purpose as set forth and given, is correct; for it, the work, that accomplished, is to be first of all an educational factor in the lives of those that are contacted through the efforts of the Association. This pertaining to the physical, the mental, and the spiritual - for, as given, these and their relations to one another are the primary forces in the physical or material life. The greater understanding of the relationship of these factors, and that the whole is one, yet must be studied in their INDIVIDUAL, and collective, and coordinating influence in the lives of individuals - and, as given, first to the individual, then to groups, to classes, to masses. This, then, is the work to be accomplished by the Association.
5. In the efforts of the Board, then:
6. First there must be wholehearted cooperation; all of one mind, and that mind to serve in the fullest sense in the dissemination of that gained through the sources of the Association work and its application in the physical, the mental, and the spiritual life of its members. Again, without that whole-hearted cooperation and oneness of mind and purpose, irrespective of position, condition, relation one with another, there may not be expected the result desired; any more than of a mis-directed mind attempting to understand a spiritual law through a purely physical application, or a physical law by spiritual application; for the spiritual is the LIFE; the mental is the BUILDER; the physical is the RESULT. This, then, should be first and foremost: The determined purpose of the Board to have whole hearted cooperation, in a one-minded purpose, and that purpose to make manifest the love of God and man; man's relation to man; man's relation to God. In THIS there must come, as has ever been given, success in such terms as the service is meted; and there may be expected that wholehearted cooperation from the divine, in the mental and the PURELY MATERIAL, in the same relation as the WHOLEHEARTEDNESS is to the oneness of purpose! A divided house CANNOT stand.
7. As to those individual relationships:
8. There has been chosen a Board, of and for same. There has been materially set forth, in a manner, the office of each. Wholehearted cooperation, then, in each - not ONLY in its specified office or duty - can bring ONLY wholehearted cooperation in its biggest, broadest, and better sense. This IS JUST PLAIN COMMON SENSE.
9. As to the efforts and that required of each:
10. In Blumenthal, the directing of that obtained in information in its application to individual life.
11. In Brown, that application of truths in the collective and individual life.
12. In Kahn, that individual application to the collective and individual life.
13. Wyrick, in the counsel of application of truth in the individual and collective life.
14. So, as may be said of each and every individual as may be associated, as an officer or as a member of such work; for in this there must stand first and foremost that the directing of self in the inner man must be made in oneness of purpose, as of the truth set forth in the purpose, the aim, of the association or organization. For when they all labored with one accord, and were of one mind, there was added daily such as would receive the word of truth that made men free! Ready for questions.
15. (Q) What should the name of the hospital be? since the name of the Association represents our entire institution?
    (A) Hospital of the Association, or Cayce Hospital of Enlightenment and Investigation, or Hospital for Enlightenment of those seeking truth.
16. (Q) Any one of these names?
    (A) In choosing names, names may, or may not, mean ANYTHING, to individuals. To others, it means much. This, the Association hospital, will ONLY be known by one name - that of the one whose dream such has been, and it will be called by that name, and in the succeeding generations, as thought is turned into those channels, the same will be as that in the beginning; for, as seen, none are being drawn into that purpose of the establishing of this more close relation of God's truth in earth - through spiritual understanding of spiritual things, mental application of mental building, or the material through which both manifest - other than those that first established same in that land now known as Egypt. In that beginning, there were those gathered (as here), in various offices, various positions. As each bore their relation to the peoples of that period, each in the PRESENT relation bears that relation to the peoples ACCORDING to their individual development, PLUS that as the desire to make manifest that so builded in that momentous period in man's understanding. In that known at that period; we find each bearing that relation to that being attempted to be disseminated by those who were the founders of same. THIS relation existed:
    When there was the first entrance into this land by the peoples from the north country, and the man - [165] subduing those peoples - set self up as the ruler of same, there came that conviction in self - through that witnessed by that body - of those conditions which were being experienced by the peoples of the land subdued. [900], then, was among those subdued, and the teacher, and giving to the peoples those of the mysticism of numbers, of the relationship of the stars, of those as were later depicted in many of the characters as became the symbols of the land. Seeing these, in this young - or seemingly youthful - man, there came the conviction of the king to pit the abilities of his son against the son of the native's, and the son then was set in rule as that of Araaraart (or [341] in the present). These pitted, then, as to their abilities to give to the peoples the better understanding of the mystic or mysterious forces as were made, and as ARE made, manifest in, then and now called, nature or natural forces.
    In the choosing of the ones to lead, such counsellors were chosen among the peoples of the land - both native and of those brought in. Among those we find many in the present Board, as seen - [195], [953], [900], - and others that will be interested later.
    The choosing of the leader [294] in the one set as priest, this became a momentous question - as to who should be chosen. And when this was first set up, there arose many dissensions, that - in the division which afterward arose - became as minor or major rebellions during a physical existence. In the return, in the again establishing OF this priest, in the minor position, yet through the establishing of the priest arose that which became that study as is being founded this day, in a distant land - yet nigh unto those same shores that washed the shores of the lands of that land - and these call from, and for, the forces of ALL to harken unto that as is being accomplished! Then, in the activities of those, there arose much, many, and heaps of those same tenets as were given by Him Who first gave, "The meek shall inherit the earth."
    Those are the tenets upon which this foundation must be laid. In that name, and in Him, shall many find blessings and understandings.
17. (Q) What shall be inscribed upon the cornerstone of the building?
    (A) Build this in the triangle, and this shall be the inscription: Cayce Hospital - Research and Enlightenment - founded by (the next stone) Association of National Investigators, Inc., 1927. (The next) That we may make manifest the love of God and man. [GD's note: 12/13/29 under 2087-1, Par. 3 and 9/05/30 under 254-51 this motto is paraphrased.]
    HARK! There comes the voice of one who would speak to those gathered here: (Pause)
    I AM MICHAEL, LORD OF THE WAY! BEND THY HEAD, OH YE CHILDREN OF MEN! GIVE HEED UNTO THE WAY AS IS SET BEFORE YOU IN THAT SERMON ON THE MOUNT, IN THAT ON YON HILL THIS ENLIGHTENMENT MAY COME AMONG MEN; FOR EVEN AS THE VOICE OF THE ONE WHO STOOD BESIDE THE SEA AND CALLED ALL MEN UNTO THE WAY, THAT THOSE THAT WOULD HARKEN MIGHT KNOW THERE WAS AGAIN A STAFF IN DAVID, AND THE ROD OF JESSE HAS NOT FAILED: FOR IN ZION THY NAMES ARE WRITTEN, AND IN SERVICE WILL COME TRUTH!
18. We are through.

REPORTS

1. 7/17/28, 7/20/28, 7/27/28, 7/30/28, See letters under 779-15 back and forth between EC and Mr. [779] re description, drawing and shipping Of Cayce Hospital cornerstone.
2. 7/17/28 EC's letter to DEK: "Morton was here last week-end, and I think we had one of the most interesting readings on the work that we have ever had. I'm sending you a copy of it."
3. 7/20/28 Mr. [195] wrote: "The rdg. [254-42] certainly was a wonderful demonstration, and I should have liked to have been there. While I have never doubted the correctness of the messages or the truth contained therein, and the reality of our work, still it is heartening to feel the assurances come through so strongly...
   "As I wrote [900], I interpreted Michael's message with reference to sermon on mount as an urge for greater publicity for work."
4. 7/24/28 See EC's letter to Mr. [195] re progress of work.
5. 7/26/28 DEK wrote: "The rdg. on the work was wonderful. I have ordered a new Testament and shall immediately begin to get my information so I can use it. I will discuss this more at length when I see you at Va. Beach."
6. 8/01/28 See EC's letter to Mr. [3940] re progress of building.
7. 8/02/28 Mr. [165] wrote: "The MICHAEL communication is at once startling and impressive."
8. 8/04/28 See 4905-70, Par. R45, R46, for talks made by Morton H. Blumenthal and Thomas B. Brown on purpose of the Association.
9. 8/13/28 EC wrote: "Possibly this isn't a new thought, Mr. [165], but somehow it has come to me rather strongly - especially since the communication of 7/15th - that under the Mosaic law the command was atonement for error, but that under the Messianic law it was an at-onement with Him. Hence mercy, grace, through that at-onement with Him in the Father. Just as we may be, in and through these channels."
10. See Source File Key #254 for Va. Pilot article, "A.R.E. strays from goals, scholar [Harmon H. Bro] says," by Marjorie Mayfield re 254-42.

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