This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 5th day of December, 1925, in accordance with request made by self.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [569].

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of EC, ..., and the dream this body had on the date which I will give you. You will give the interpretation and lesson to be gained from same, as I read same to you.
   [The dream - not read: Saturday morning, 12/05/25. I seemed to be led by Gertrude. There was actually a string on me. While it didn't seem as something that bound me, but rather a feeling of security from losing my way. At times it was a cord, other times a heavy rope or chain. Others it was a rope of pearls and of diamonds, then plain glass beads. I could hear her calling me but I could never see her. I could even hear her urging Miss Gladys to get behind me and push me, and I could feel her pushing me over a hill or around a corner.]
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, EC, here. We have had this before.
3. In the various dreams as we see that come to the entity, these, as given, should be taken in the way and manner that the lessons, as may be gained from same, may be applied in the daily life. Thus, through these forces as have been given should guide and direct, there may be the way for the better development of the forces which may manifest themselves through the endeavor of the entity, and for the physical satisfaction that is gained by those who are associated with the same.
4. For, as seen in this, there comes that condition in which the presented forces show how the action of the manifestations in such endeavors are led in the physical manner.
5. For as is seen, the efforts in the physical, in the material, in the way of development are guided by that force which leads on [GC?]. Sometimes in the heavy manner, again in those various phases that are presented in the various ways.
6. Also with the urge that is given by being pushed, urged or pushed by one in the ways as are seen [GD?].
7. This, then, should give the greater incentive to each [EC, GC, GD], in their respective ways and manners, to aid in that being attempted. For through such cooperation would the greater benefits in every conceivable manner accrue from such endeavors - see?
8. (Q) What was the significance of the kinds of different cords?
   (A) As given, the various ways the entity as seen [GC] is that physical urge that leads the endeavor of the entity on in the various ways as seen. Sometimes in cords, other times in beautiful manners, other times in dread.
9. (Q) What was the significance in urging Miss Gladys to get behind and push?
   (A) Just as given, there is needed that incentive to make the best. For those conditions, as given, it is as necessary for being pushed, or assisted, as for the urge to be led. Hence the lesson as given: The full cooperation and the assistance in and from all - see?
10. (Q) What are the deficiencies in the three seen in this dream?
    (A) No deficiency seen. The urges as are given are those for the better assistance, the better help each may lend in the development, see?
11. (Q) In what way may these entities assist in a better manner?
    (A) Only through the ways that are seen in that given, see? that the whole may be as this: Each represents those which are the greater forces - Love, Charity, Faith, Courage - see? Or, as may be given in this: Each representing a virtue necessary for the greater development, whether of physical, material, financial, mental or what not - Faith, Hope, Charity - and the more all are seen in each, the greater the successes that are seen, that are known, in every phase, for every sphere of same to be manifested. Manifested meaning in this sense: Seen and known of men, see? Felt in self, known in mind, experienced in own life - seen by others.
12. (Q) (After long pause) Have you finished with this reading?
    (A) Much more may be said regarding the work and the efforts of each of these. They may be presented from many different ways and manners, for they each physically, have their burdens, their cares, their efforts to make, to meet that which is then required for the necessary functioning of the forces.
    Then keep in that way, knowing, as has been given, in Him is Truth and Light, and "What ye ask in my name, BELIEVING, ye shall receive - ye shall receive." "If ye love me keep my commandments, and I will send the Comforter and He will abide with thee."
13. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. See previous dream interpretation rdgs.

REPORTS

1. 12/08/25 EC obtained dream interpretation rdg. 294-52.
2. GD's note: I think it was somewhere near this date or in 1926 that EC started telling us the dream he had sometimes during a Life Rdg., in which he saw himself as a tiny dot following a light while seeking the record of the individual for giving a Life Reading. 1/33 See EC's account of this dream, in a lecture, used under 294-19 Reports.

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