This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 W. 35th St., Virginia Beach, Va., this 8th day of April, 1926, in accordance with request made by self - Edgar Cayce.

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

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of EC, present in this room, and you will give the interpretation and lesson to be gained from each of the dreams this body had on the dates which I will give you, as I read same to you.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind. This we have had before.
3. Dreams, visions, impressions, to the entity in the normal sleeping state are the presentations of the experiences necessary for the development, if the entity would apply them in the physical life. These may be taken as warnings, as advice, as conditions to be met, conditions to be viewed in a way and manner as lessons, as truths, as they are presented in the various ways and manners.
4. Ready for dream.
5. (Q) Wednesday Morning, 3/31/26. "About scalding to death in the bath tub." You will recall this dream and give the interpretation and lesson.
   (A) This is the dream: There is seen and felt within the entity the necessity of overcoming physical pain in the body; by immersing the body in warm or hot water. When the body reclining in same, it is overcome by the heat, from the effect of too much relaxing for the high blood pressure in the heart's action, physically, and there is viewed that death in the physical, ensues from same.
   Then there is heard those approaching, those attempting to gain entrance, with the various conditions that follow - those being prominent - the preparation, the notification, of those who are to know concerning the demise of the entity; the preparation and journey to the place of interment, the feeling of the change at given place when body is brought, an the actions concerning conditions that ensue when changes take place that become necessary in the family affairs of the individual. Then the following of the individual whom the entity holds so dear in the physical mind, because of the effect the death has produced in the life of the individual.
   In this, then, we find there are many various conditions that are presented to the entity for study. Many lessons may be gained from the full concept of this as viewed.
   First and foremost - the PHYSICAL defects in the body that need physical attention, else there might occur that condition wherein the body would become minus the active forces of the principle in the operation of the psychic forces, or manners of operation in the physical plane.
   Yet, as it is seen, this lesson should be again noted, taken and considered: Even though the physical body may be laid aside, the operation of the work, as is seen and carried on in this state, WILL BE going just the same, and the impressions, the lessons, the guiding forces, the directing, and the help and assistance to MANY, and especially those with whom the entity feels, in the physical, the close endearment, the close connections.
   And THIS lesson should be gained: LIFE is action, and is made of the MENTAL action or mind. While MIND is divided into different phases, their active forces are ONE and the SAME. The BODY, PHYSICAL, proving the hindrance, then to the active force of mind, rather than a help, save as it may be applied in the physical plane to the assistance and aid of other individuals. See?
   Now, as to the conditions that ensue, there is again a lesson, that is seen in the way and manner these are accepted: It will be seen that there are many who will be drawn to the individual, EC, through the mental efficiencies of the body while in the subconscious state. Through these many channels, through these many individuals who come who are drawn to same, [it is seen that] the entity who finds the ability to gain knowledge, lessons, understanding, monies, lands, position, may, - [all may] - through these same channels, by correlating efforts with those who present themselves for the study of same from time to time - achieve much in knowledge, in study, in the ways and in the manner as sought for. [See 294-70, Par. R1.]
6. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. 3/17/26 He obtained dream interpretation rdg. 294-68 advising no use for getting further rdgs. unless he is going to apply the advice given.

REPORTS

1. 4/12/26 Mon. A.M. EC told of having dreamed of painting a picture.
2. 4/20/26 He obtained dream rdg. 294-72.
3. 9/17/44 See 294-212, a Ck. Physical for EC, the last reading he gave, and especially a report on his condition on 12/19/44 by Dr. Henry George III which includes this startling statement (in connection with the 294-70 dream rdg. eighteen years before):
   "Don't give him anything that is apt to strangle him. I think the real danger is in him strangling to death." [He died 1/03/45]
4. 2/48 A.R.E. Bulletin article by Hugh Lynn Cayce, entitled, A PSYCHIC'S DREAMS, uses 294-70 as an example of "A Strange Prophecy" and says:
   We mention the following points not as evidence for prophecy but simply as interesting coincidences. Gertrude Cayce died just three months after Edgar Cayce's passing in 1945. The cause of his death, as diagnosed by the physician, was pulmonary edema, water on the lungs. To most of us the most interesting statement from this reading deals with the continuation of his work after death. Note the date of the dream and the interpretation. It was 1926.

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