This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 7th day of September, 1932, in accordance with request made by those present.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis, Florence & Edith Edmonds, Minnie Barrett, and H. L. Cayce.

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the members of the healing group present in this room, who seek advice and guidance from the Master as to the welfare of [294], present in this room, and as to their work in the name of the Master. You will answer the questions which they prayerfully submit regarding these and their individual development and enlightenment.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here, as a group, as individuals, and their work with the various individuals.
3. Respecting the conditions physical in the body [294] these are the results of conditions brought about in the physical forces through the activities of the imaginative system, or of anger, that made for poisons that must be - and are being - eliminated through the physical manners necessary for those activities to become normal in the physical body.
4. As to the applications in the mental and in the physical forces, these are gradually restoring or bringing resuscitations for the physical effects that must be met in the activities necessary for the bringing about of resuscitating forces in the system.
5. Ready for questions.
6. (Q) How can we best aid [294]?
   (A) Through the holding of the meditations as for the active forces that may manifest in the mental and spiritual forces of the body.
7. (Q) Outline a specific diet for him.
   (A) This is naturally one that should be or will be found necessary to alter from time to time as the conditions are changing in the physical forces that bring for resuscitations to the body. The milk and egg diet will be the better in the immediate present. Then those foods that are blood and nerve building, that make for the supplying of those active forces in the resuscitating of the activity in the preparing of the gastric forces in the digestive system. These, then, will be changed as the necessity brings the various changes, or as this:
   Mornings - citrus fruits, of orange or grapefruit juices; with browned bread or toast, or cakes of rice, with those that make for the active forces in the gastric juices.
   Noons - milk toast, or egg and toast.
   Evenings - milk and toast with egg, or some resuscitating form of meats or meat juices that build for the blood forces.
   Then, change these as the digestive forces make for the better reaction in the replenishing of the depleted forces as created by the poisons that made for accumulations in the system.
8. (Q) How can he overcome this condition?
   (A) It's being overcome, as given.
9. (Q) Please give a personal affirmation for this individual.
   (A) That which is used by the body most often in the present is well. USE ME, O FATHER, AS THOU SEEST THAT I MAY BEST SERVE MY FELLOW MAN.
10. (Q) Please explain why the healing group [281] has been unable to make its work clear to the study group? [262]
    (A) Differences of opinions in the activities of individuals, or personality and individuality clashing over material points when the spiritual and mental should be the basis for all considerations.
    In these variations, well that all should consider that attempting to be accomplished, rather than by whom or what is being used for the accomplishing of that ideal; letting HIM be the guide, forgetting self or self's feelings, or self's interests in any manner; for, as He gave, "I do nothing of myself."
11. (Q) How may this be done?
    (A) Just as given, "I do nothing of myself." Let others do as they will or may, but for myself I will be led as HE directs.
12. (Q) Is it best that the healing group give up their readings that there may be more harmony in the study group?
    (A) This depends upon the purpose of the healing group. Are they to be ruled or governed by individuals' ideas, or are they to be used in His service as HE would direct?
13. (Q) Please advise us concerning the readings.
    (A) When readings, or advice, or counsel, are necessary, then seek same through those channels that are acceptable to all, and only in giving out may we receive.
14. (Q) Please give new affirmation.
    (A) MAY THERE BE THAT CONSCIOUSNESS IN ME THAT THE CHRIST WOULD HAVE ME HAVE AT THIS TIME, KNOWING THAT IN HIM ALL IS WELL.
15. (Q) In reading of May 12, 1932, what was meant by beginning with lessons from the Master? [281-6, Par. 8-A, 9-A]
    (A) As HIS teachings in the various forms of presenting the individual application of the forces that may manifest through individuals called for a certain purpose or work in His vineyard. Not all are pruners, not all are planters, not all are gatherers. So, in those applications of that that may manifest through individuals in such work as presented here, not all are interpreters (save in self), not all are ministers, not all are emissaries, not all are healers, not all are to be compilers, not all are managers, not all are the workers - some must be the jerkers.
16. We are through.

BACKGROUND

1. Subject of Reading - "Glad Helpers."

REPORTS

1. 9/07/32 GD's note: EC was having another spell of neuritis, very severe, and also one of his periodic attacks of colon congestion arising from old intestinal adhesions or stricture.

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