(Q) What was the cause of not being able to obtain [
355]'s
Life Reading on Saturday morning, June 10th, when attempted?
[See
355-1 on
6/13/33.]
(A) The inability for the active forces of the body Edgar
Cayce, from the cycle of psychic influence, to contact that
record necessary for the interpreting of same.
It would be well that there be reviewed much that has been
given through these channels, as to how information is
obtained through these channels. Much has been given from
time to time, though - in reviewing same - there may be some
enlargements upon that already given that may be enlightening
to those present, as to their own susceptibility to such
influence; and may also enlighten some as to a better
understanding of the laws that govern same.
First, let this be understood. Any phenomena worth
considering by an enlightened mind must work or act in unison
through some unified channels, that there may be - as it were
- stated necessary conditions in the activity for the
production of the best or of the truth as related to that
particular phase or class of phenomena.
And because there are variations, or because there are
periods when it is seemingly impossible for contact to be
made, does not necessarily indicate that such a channel IS
governed by these laws; nor does it signify that such a
channel or medium (if chosen to be called such) is not
amenable to those laws.
Then, considering this particular channel and what takes
place when information of a varied sort is obtained, or
obtainable, or unobtainable through this channel Edgar Cayce:
As has been set forth as to the developing of the soul-entity
through material-earthly manifestations (Please watch the
wording), there has been a development for the soul-entity
that lends itself (through natural consequence of environment
and hereditary influence, from the spiritual plane) to
activity in the realms of psychic or mental forces.
Then, consider also that which has been given, that through
the subconscious or superconscious forces of the entity the
manifestations may take place; or from the superconscious or
subconscious forces of entities that may have passed into
that designated as the spiritual realm. Through these, or
through the universal consciousness or cosmic consciousness
from the very abilities of the entity Edgar Cayce to wholly
subjugate the physical consciousness as to allow the use of
physical organs that may be attuned to all realms that
pertain to psychic or mental or spiritual influences in the
realms about the entity.
Then, that which wavers or hinders or repels or blocks the
activity through this channel when in such a state may be
from these causes; namely:
The unwillingness of the body-consciousness to submit to the
suggestion as pertaining to information desired at that
particular time. Or the activity of the physical in such a
manner as to require the influence or supervision of the
superconsciousness in the body, or ill health, at such a
period. Or the mental attitude of those about the body that
are not in accord with the type, class or character of
information sought at that particular time. Or there may be
the many variations of the combination of these, influencing
one to another, as to the type, class or real activity of the
entity or soul that seeks the information.
For, as may be surmised from that given, one that would
approach the sources of the information with the innate and
manifested desire that that which is supplied in information
should emanate from a loved one in the spiritual realm, and
that desire has kept such an entity in the realm of
communication, and there are those combative influences in
the experience of that entity so seeking, and the development
of the entity of the channel or medium through which the
information may be attempted is capable of such contact, is
there not - as presented in Holy Writ - the continual warring
with the flesh and the spirit? The continual warring also
with the spirit or entity or consciousness that would control
through such a period of information passing from one realm
to another.
For (for further explanation), this should be known to all:
The material realms or earth activities are as a shadow or a
manifestation of a spiritual law, that may in its essence -
when viewed from the realm of psychic or spiritual or mental
influence - appear to be quite different; yet one is the
shadow of the other. But in describing, then, as a shadow
upon a material plane, there would be periods - according to
the time of day, the position of the body from the source of
light casting such a shadow - when there would be an outline
that anyone would know that from which the shadow was cast.
Yet at other periods the shadow would be, of the same body
(material body), such that the description would not reach
the consciousness of those even more intimate with the body
from which such a shadow would be cast.
So, with that which may emanate through such a channel, there
be many influences that have to do with the corrector of the
shadow cast; remembering, too, that material things - or the
vocal cords of a body, material - are being used as the means
of transmitting that which may be seen of the actual or true
body that is being described, analyzed, philosophized,
theorized, or acted upon by or through that being sought.
Hence, there are laws that pertain to the activity; as to why
there become periods when there is the inability of activity,
or when the activity becomes hindered by DIVERS reasons or
causes, when they are so called in the material plane.
As in this particular instance that is asked for, with this
entity now known as [
355]: There were, in the field or room
at that particular time, feelings in the make-up (which means
of the whole body) of those present that made for a
deflecting of that being sought; as well as of the shadow
cast. Or, there was the inability to reach that position,
that plane, that sphere, from which the record was being
sought as made by the entity.
What are the records, and how are they made, is asked, that
they may be turned back and so read by any soul-mind or
medium or channel? (Which, in its analysis, means the
soul-mind of either the entity through which the information
comes or that entity speaking or manifesting, whether in
hearing, in visioning, in writing, in speaking; but, as
given, to become a manifestation it must approach through one
of the channels through which consciousness comes to those
that reside in the plane that is seeking the information.
See? Hence, called senses.)
In this particular instance, again there were those
conditions in the entity's mental being seeking the
information that were combative in opening self that the real
record might be read as made.
How is the record made? How is the record read?
In the material plane we have instruments that are so attuned
through the raising of the forces in various elements of one
or another of the consciousnesses that manifest in the
material plane. As in the phonograph or the radio, or the
prism light; or any of the activating influences such as in
the stethoscope with its various acoustic arrangements for
the activity of elements related to movements of various
influences within the realm of man's activity in respiration,
circulation, activity of contractings in muscular forces,
tendon activities, ganglia reaction, and the like.
These are but, then (from our first premise), a shadow of the
real realm in which the activity of life is recorded.
Then (to become more elucidating upon that we are presenting
here), we must turn again to a first premise that we may make
for the greater enlightenment or the cooperative influences
that come to bear when these are in motion that make for a
record.
For, as we see first in the material plane, to the material
sense, an object or a body that is called stationary produces
the same character of shadow as one in motion. Far, far from
same!
It might be even characterized by saying that an instrument
for measuring time that stood still is correct in some realms
twice each twenty-four hours, but never correct at any other
seconds in that period.
So with the shadow of a stationary object; for that which
appears even stationary is only relatively so, as related to
or compared with that still in motion (through the sense
stations of consciousness to a body in the material plane.)
Then Life, or the manifestation of that which is in motion,
is receiving its impulse from a first cause.
What is the first cause?
That which has brought, is bringing, all life into being; or
animation, or force, or power, or movement, or consciousness,
as to either the material plane, the mental plane, the
spiritual plane.
Hence it is the force that is called Lord, God, Jehovah, Yah,
Ohum [Ohm?], Abba and the like. Hence the activity that is
seen of any element in the material plane is a manifestation
of that first cause. One Force. And, as seen and stated
above, a record in a phonograph is made up of elements of a
certain combination of that which has become in manifested
form in certain movements in relation to the first cause, for
the projection (and does project) by natural laws; as the
physical or material laws, then, are the reflection or shadow
of spiritual laws. See? And these then make for, under
certain laws, certain words, certain regulations, the
retaining of that (through one of these elements or
attributes of consciousness) which has passed before it; or
that has been indented upon this element in this rate of
activity of a first cause or first principle that is in
movement, and unless in movement is not capable of being
manifested in a material world. For, the movement itself (to
make applicable another law) DRAWS about a nucleus the
positive and negative forces as to bring into visibility from
one sphere or realm to another that force or power. Or it
has lost that which makes for the raising or reducing of such
vibrations as for the force, the power, the first cause, to
become active in this or that or the other realm of
consciousness.
Then, as the realm of record is made by indentations of other
influences that act upon the medium that is used as the
source, or plate, or manner of recording, so will there be -
with the acoustic arrangements of that which is the negative
of that influence which causes the indentation - REPRODUCED
that which has been indented by the positive activity upon
that record, that plate, that plane, that activity.
So is this, then, as the record that is made of the force
that manifests itself in the form of a body-mind with the
attributes of all that vibration through which it has passed
in reaching that place or plane of consciousness; it must be
in accord, so that the record made is positive or negative
(negative being error, positive being right - good), that it
may be penetrated to through the application of a negative
influence upon that in whatever realm it may have made its
indentation or record.
Then, only in attuning the forces of that which may be the
medium of reading back that record which has been made, may
this be given activity into another realm of consciousness
for instruction, for edification, for those various
activities of those seeking same. For, how does the answer
come? For what purpose is the information sought? To do
that which is in accord with that which first made the
record, the indentation, or to correct that which has been in
an obtuse angle to that which should be in accord with that
to which the entity or the soul so making such a record is
gathering its influence and force toward?
Hence, how easily may there be a diffusion or a break in that
which may be obtained through such a channel, that is capable
of attuning self so that it may write, read, hear, see, feel,
or experience, and - through SOME of the modes of approach to
consciousness in a material world - give that experience
which has been made by some activity; whether in this or that
realm, in its course through that of eternity, time, space,
or in the realm of the spirit itself!
For, as given, names but give metes and bounds to the
consciousness of those that classify such activities in a
certain stage or realm of conscious movement.
In the same manner we find the record as of the radio. The
influences used here are simply a changed vibration of those
very influences that have been described in their activity,
and gather from this or that influence that which is being
recorded. By the movement of what? The first cause, when in
its activity in various forms or manners in a certain realm
of consciousness.
What, then, is the variation from the one to the other?
The reproducer of that recorded. In one it is required that
it change its realm of activity for reproduction. In the
other it is attuned to the first cause, that gives off in
whatever realm or place that is attuned TO the activity, the
IMMEDIATE response.
Hence, as from our first premise (the post), the conditions
are only relative.
Then, the psychic influences or forces in manifestation in
their various spheres are as but a type of needle upon the
record; a type of acoustics in the recorded or de-recording
activity. Or the power and the influence by its development
toward the realm of the first cause, as to the power of the
tube or of the resoundant or of the length of its activity to
care for its reproduction.
Hence, out of tune by many of the channels that have been
indicated did prevent at that time [
355] from receiving that
later given.
(Q) In group reading of Sunday afternoon, June 25th
[
262-48, Par. 14-A], why was no answer given to the request
for a message? What happened to Edgar Cayce during the
experience?
(A) This, as we find then, must (if it follows
natural laws) fall among the category of that which has been
presented as related to the laws pertaining to the abilities
of the reproducer to gain from the channel of the
information sought that which is to be brought to those
seeking.
In this particular instance we find two elements enter.
Remember, we have spoken of the elements; how that they in
their various vibrations produce that which makes for either
the producer or the receiver. See?
And these may appear, in their first glance from those that
would study same, to be a different condition; yet they are
phases, as the shadow has lengthened - or that producing same
is at such an angle that no answer comes.
Is the simile understood? It is as this:
In the one there was the desire of that source of supply to
respond through that channel (This is from the outside, now,
acting in) being opened for same. And there was within that
which turned the switch and produced static. Hence no
message came. Who? Those present.
What happened to the body Edgar Cayce?
To the BODY, little. To the MENTAL forces, or the spiritual
activity of the entity as a whole, a very hard KNOCK; as
there was the DESIRE to enter in, and the entity stumbled -
as it were - against a closed door.
Yes, this is deep; but it's understood!
(Q) What happened Tuesday morning, July 11th, when we
attempted to obtain a Life Reading for [
373], and received
only some words or exclamations in German?
(A) The attempt of one that might guide the thought of the
entity seeking, that was of that speech only. You see where
this fits in with that which has been given? Incapable of
being understood through those present, then - BY THEM - cut
off!
(Q) What is the interpretation of the German words given?
(A) This is simply curiosity! Learn German!
We are through.
REPORTS
GD's note: At beginning of waking suggestion [from 254-67],
Edgar Cayce's body almost turned a somersault; his head bent
over to where his feet usually are, and stayed that way until
the whole waking suggestion was given, when he then waked
normally and felt exuberant - fine! See explanation in Work
reading of
9/07/33 -
254-68 - P.M. of the same day.
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