This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Ave., Dayton, Ohio, this 3rd day of August, 1925, in accordance with request made by self.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the enquiring mind of EC, present in this room, and the dreams this body has had in the last week, and you will give the interpretations and lessons to be gained from these as I give them to you.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body and the body-mind, with the enquiring forces as are manifest in the body-mind. Now, we find the body and the body-mind, and the desire of knowledge, of enquiring of forces pertaining to elements of development, are separate conditions, or should be considered as such [if we] would understand in a material manner the conditions as pertain to vision, dream, or Urim, that would be made beneficial to body's desiring, wishing, to know these lessons that might be, could be, would or should be, gained from such as dreams.
3. In the elements then, the divisions are as these:
4. Body - the physical element as is seen in the material world.
5. Body-mind - that which is made conscious to material plane by physical objects. The desire, or the mentality, the forces manifest through enquiring mind, being action of mental mind, as accrued by the correlations of force manifested through visions, or any of five senses of the material body. Now body-mind is of the sense of action, but the action is the desire, see?
6. The conditions, then, as are presented to this body, EC, in dream, are the correlations of the physical mind with subconscious forces, and are presented in the picturalization of conditions present and to come, as related to that reached by deductive reasoning of the conscious forces.
7. Ready for dream.
8. (Q) The first one is three dreams in succession regarding [4631] of ..., Alabama, and her relations with others.
   (A) This, as we see, is related to the conditions of the mental forces as pass through the mind of the body, EC. As [4631] represents in physical forces that which is pure, chaste, and in every manner subservient to all moral law in no uncertain terms, presentation of that individual then becoming subjugated to degrading thought and action, presents to the mind forces those conditions that may come to the body through false action of self, and the degrading conditions as are seen, felt, in the action of the other, might be felt toward the same individual if those conditions were allowed to become a portion of the body. The lesson then: As this condition is abhorrent to all social and moral conditions, then let this be as a lesson to same, not to become so imbued with such thought as to bring such conditions in the life of self or of others.
9. (Q) 8/03/25, in the early morning hours. I was with W. L. Hopper in Hopper's Book Store in Hopkinsville, Ky., arranging ink and paper in the store. Then it changed to the storeroom of John P. Morton & Co., of Louisville, Ky., when I saw pen of a peculiar make with point of peculiar make, and questions regarding size of bottle of ink that was desired. I was climbing into a pen in which there was considerable number of boxes of paper and writing material, that I desired to straighten up. When I had gotten into the pen, I found Mr. H. P. Tressler there of Montgomery, Ala. who questioned me as to whether I was going to work for someone else or for myself.
   (A) This, as we see, is emblematical of conditions in the life of this body, entity - physically, see?
   As each of these people, places, conditions, scenes, represents the change, the environment, the suggestions, the advice which is, has been, was, may be, will be, given to the body as to conduct of self, this then, with the writing material, pen, ink, paper, relating to those conditions regarding written material being made, which has been made, will be made, and to the body assigning, releasing, giving, or signing papers releasing same to others, making then the dependence, as to whether the entity will be laboring for others or for self.
   The lesson then: Heed advice as has been given, in love, in the spirit of truth, and use same when time comes to sign such papers, for these, as is seen in shape, style, magnitude of ink, will mean very much to self and to others depending upon same.
10. (Q) What did the peculiar make of pen mean?
    (A) Just as given. The magnitude of the act itself, in signing papers, as given. This is seen in shape, style of pen and nib, and in quantity of ink, whether small bottle, half pints or quarts, as was seen in dream, see?
11. We are through.

REPORTS

1. 8/15/25 See 254-24, Par. 13-A in re EC's conduct - his work being judged by his spiritual life in his relationship to others.

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