This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 19th day of April, 1926, in accordance with request made by self - Edgar Cayce.

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

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body, the mind, the physical, mental and financial conditions of this body. This we have had here before.
2. Now, these all are intermingled one with another, for to understand, physically or materially, the conditions as take place within this body, mentally, morally, spiritually, financially, physically, these are a part, one of the other. For the body physical is so amenable to suggestion, through the natural physical condition of the body structure and mental, until the various conditions as transpire have much to do one with the other. That these may be better understood, we give here each in their relative position, and a correlation of each must then be made with the other, that a better understanding may be gained and a correction, that will be worth while or lasting, from a physical or material standpoint, attained.
3. In the physical, then, we find there exists in the body- physical those conditions that are subjugated to suggestion, sympathetically, from improper conditions accorded the system at times, through the diet, through the conditions that exist in the system from accumulations of the poisons in the system, in the way and manner as has been outlined. There is seen from the physical standpoint that these conditions are corrected at times until there is near the normal physical functioning of the body. Yet when any condition produces an abnormal over-flow in the system, whether from physical, mental or financial, which to the body produces suggestion to the MENTAL, whether it be physical mental, body mental, or elementary mental, the conditions are brought into being by the action of creative forces as are brought in play by suggestion as is made to the physical body. Physically, then, there occur conditions that bring a physical condition in the body [Neuritis?] that becomes distressing to the body- mental or body-physical, see? such as is seen in the conditions of the blood stream, in that eliminations are not carried on properly by toxins being formed by a suggestion physically, mentally or financially.
4. Then, to correct these conditions, there needs be, as is seen and as has often been given, would the best be obtained through the Forces as are manifested through the individual: First, THE BODY-PHYSICAL MUST FUNCTION NEAR NORMAL.
5. The body-mental must be without restraint in directions that would create detrimental conditions within the physical body, through the suggestion of oppression to any portion of the functioning of the organism.
6. The body should be from under that stress of physical financial condition, would the body not obtain, mentally, those distressing conditions as are carried by mental impressions to the functioning of the organism.
7. Now, how shall all these be accomplished?
8. First, in the physical there should be kept many of the various conditions as have been given for the body. The body should NOT take meats of any character, save that of fowl or fish. The vegetable diet SHOULD be the MAIN portion of diets for the body, for what the body-physical subsists upon the body becomes in its action. Then, where there are produced toxins in a physical body, by the absorption of feces that contain meats of a character that produces the digression of all physical and spiritual law, with a body so highly attuned to suggestion, how else COULD there be anything but corruption? And from corruption there come distressing effects to the functioning of this organism of Edgar Cayce; in keeping the system cleansed from every condition that would cause any condition of this toxin to be absorbed, the conditions then as exist in muscular and in nerve tissue, becoming over strained, becoming congested through cold or congestion, becoming overtaxed by mental suggestion of strain, (which, as we have seen, is produced mentally, physically or financially, which produce a great strain on that particular spot) bring the distress, see?
9. In that this condition operates in this manner, were all of these conditions made proper by the correct mental attitude of the individual, they WOULD produce then a mental condition that would bring that body-health, that body-finance NECESSARY for the sustenance of all. For, as has been given, "Of the storehouse of the Lord all good things come."
10. The physical condition of the body raised to a high tension, through the abuse of any portion of the body, must of necessity keep the tension of the system to that point where distressing results must be the outcome. Then, debar self from any condition, physically, that would add to that already over burdened mental, moral and spiritual self, that the manifestation of the individual's conception of the higher forces, as are manifested in the spiritual and physical world, may be made manifest before men, in an acceptable way and manner. For to direct an individual in an improper manner is as the "blind leading the blind." And to undo any element of faith or hope in an individual mind, without giving that which is more stable and that will be more productive, is as but taking away from him that hath not, and is as putting a soul under bondage to the evil conditions that MAN has made in this material world.
11. Then, as to the mental condition of the entity, the mental being in that way and manner of being high strung, high in action, susceptible to suggestion, is as easily directed by those suggestions that hinder as those that build. For the entity is then weakening the resistance in the physical weakness, that through which the MENTAL must function. For WHO CAN THINK ARIGHT WHEN THE LIVER IS ALL WRONG? In the mental conditions, then, there is as this:
12. To make these corrections for the mental conditions is to so fill the mental forces of the body with that plenteous love of the Master and His oneness with the Father that there is found NO PLACE for the entrance of that which would beguile, or make weak, or make afraid. For, as has been given: "Let that mind be in YOU which was in Jesus, the Christ, who took no thought of the morrow, (for the morrow brings forth the EVILS sufficient unto itself) who made His Life of NO estate, that others might KNOW the Love and the Fatherhood of God, that He, the Christ, might become the Living Way, the Approach to the Father," and "What thou asketh in MY NAME, BELIEVING, ye shall have. If ye love me, keep my commandments, and I will come and dwell in thine own heart." That is: "I will so fill your mind, your MENTAL FORCES WITH THE GOOD, until all else shall be driven away."
13. This, then, is the correction of the mental forces of THIS entity (or any other entity): "Let that mind be in you which was in Jesus."
14. As to the financial:
15. The entity is, then, so set about by the conditions that there may be brought to the body that which it may desire, WITH the compliance of the other two conditions; keeping the body (physical body), the mind, set in purpose as one with Him. "Consider thou the lilies of the field; they grow; neither do they toil or spin, yet Solomon in all his glory not arrayed like one of these." "The grass flourisheth to-day - is cut and cast in the oven." If thou lettest thy mind wander or become afraid, how can the good things approach?
16. There are many channels, then, through which the monies necessary for the sustenance of physical life may enter in, and, as was given of old, "Take that thou has in hand" - not desiring that other things might come, or that things might be changed about, or that would wait on the action or the doings of others - TAKE THAT THOU HAST IN HAND! for in the trust in God, He can make those bloom, even as the almond; for, as has been seen then in those conditions as exist:
17. First the physical kept in the physical way and manner. First of ALL the mental kept one with Him, and the physical in that attunement to the conditions that are of the physical-physical, of the spiritual-spiritual, of the earthly-earthy and make of ONE, THOURGH that Builder, the Mind, ONE WITH HIM. The work as may be accomplished is as the work of the Father. Abuse not that as has been placed in thine hand, for the abuse of same redounds to that same as those who would make His laws of none effect, but through selfishness of the eye, desire of the flesh, and the lusts of the earth, destroy self. Be then in that manner and way whereas, as has been said, "If ye love me, act that way." Ready for questions.
18. (Q) Has the work been carried on in the way it should since the body has been in Virginia Beach?
    (A) Depends upon which manner and what way this may be looked at. As to the abuse of body, no. As to the applying of that in hand, no. As to the MENTAL condition in which the entity should and must keep itself, no.
    How then may these be corrected?
    In the action in the way and manner as has been here outlined, separating these in their proper place and channel. As has been given, the physical for the physical, the mental for the mental, the financial for the financial, and OVER ALL that mind which was in the mind of Christ-Jesus - service to man, that all may know the face of God.
19. We are through.

BACKGROUND

1. 2/12/26 He obtained Ck. Physical rdg. 294-64, and subsequently several dream interpretation rdgs.
2. 3/29/26 He obtained Ck. Physical rdg. 294-69. [Neuritis]

REPORTS

1. 4/20/26 [Next day] He obtained dream rdg. 294-72.
2. 7/13/26 He obtained Ck. Physical rdg. 294-73.

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