Edgar Cayce Readings, 294-154

Time and Place: 11:30 to 12:00 Noon - Eastern Standard Time. ..., Va.

TEXT

GC: You will have before you the suggestions of Harry M. Goetz of Reliance Pictures, Inc., 1776 B'way, N.Y. City, regarding the feasibility of presenting in modern setting, through a political or financial theme, the ideals and truths of the story of Uhjltd as given through this channel. Also his idea of having this data, as may be obtained for such a story, rewritten by some noted writer and then turned into a scenario. You will tell us if this is the correct or best way of presenting these truths and ideals, and advise us regarding the best way of seeking such data through this channel and the manner of preparing it for presentation to Mr. Goetz. You will answer the questions which may be asked. [See HLC's compilation of the story of Uhjltd under 1770-2 Reports.]
EC: Yes, we have the suggestions, the ideas of Harry M. Goetz, as respecting the information, the truths that may be presented from such information concerning such sources of information. These, as ideas or suggestions, must of necessity be presented, or we may PRESENT them in their many different phases or manners. For, as seen, they are one man's or one individual's idea, that is encouraged or abetted by the thought of others, as well as by experience in that as may be called the material, or that as may be called the psychological consideration of such data.
The truths, the lessons, are apparent to the body; the necessity of presenting them is all well and good, provided the public is ready to receive such, provided the data or information is presented in such a way or manner as to be so unusual as to be both interesting and worth while.
All of these conditions must be considered, not only by Harry M. Goetz but by those that would present such data or information to be used in or through such channels, or in such manners
We may turn also to those who in their experience presented at least three phases of entertainment for the "dear public" and they may enlighten those that would present that questioning, as to bring what phase or manner of presenting same to the public.
There, or here, is the well-known and the late lamented who was dubbed John Bunny, who has possibly caused more individuals to smile than any ONE that presented himself during the early development of the moving picture for entertainment. But rather than that which was simply ludicrous there was ever presented something which carried with it not so much that called, "Now look at the moral" but rather as "Choose YOU that ye will BE in your experience." He gives as this: [Spirit communication?]
In choosing a vehicle for the presenting of a truth it becomes necessary that there be given that which is timely, and that is the concensus of thought of great numbers of people. As to the ideas you have presented in Uhjltd, this is a timely subject as well as a truth that may be grasped in the minds of individuals; provided it has sufficient humor in it as to not become boresome to the great mass of theatre or moving picture fans. [John Bunny]
Now, as we find, we have with us here also an entirely different type of presenting the interest, or holding the interest of the public, through the vehicles he represented, or presented in his period, in that known as Wally Reid. In his presentation we will find a different characterization. His idea or his thought would be:
The lessons that would be presented in such an undertaking would be WELL, provided that the strength of the characters are such that there is the well-defined line between that which impels the individuals in their activity towards the various phases of experience; and there is the necessity of showing how that the little fault here and there leads to those inabilities to throw off the shackles they build in human experience. These may be presented in such a story, in a modern setting, that may not only become WONDERFUL in the good it WILL accomplish, but will be a vehicle of giving a truth that is needed so badly among the profession as well as the laymen at this time; and conditions in the earth, conditions in the thought of readjustments to the varied conditions that present themselves as problems in the experience of individuals, are so timely. In the matter of STRENGTH, then, or the line that shows that which builds for good and evil, WE would stress in such presentation. [Wallace Reid]
Again we have here that idea which may be presented by one who has spoken before, as concerning the interest that may be had among not only individuals of the profession but those that need so badly to be reminded that there are other things to be considered than fame or fortune, or that there is indeed set before each individual, day by day, that they must choose for themselves, in the activity of their mental forces and beings, in the force of their will, that which makes for good or bad; or, as John Drew would give:
In presenting such a timely vehicle for the presenting of truth, it must be that which is both dramatic and powerful, and that does not present too much of the sorrowful side of experience; yet sufficient of such - in a ludicrous manner - that the great tension that must be experienced in the climaxes and anticlimaxes of such an experience will drive home to the viewers of such those truths that God IS in His holy temples, and that what man does with that He has given him as abilities is up to the man, whether his station in life is that of the ruler of many, the leader of groups, the politican in power, the man in the counting-house, or the laboring man in the field or in the shop, or the man by the side of the road. It must be drawn in such a manner, then, that it may present that which was given, even as Uhjltd was made to speak, that the glory of the earth and the skies declare that that energy we may call God is so universal as to be ONE, in whatever phase of experience that His children, His creatures, find themselves, or become aware of those attributes that demand the necessity of propagation within self. Then, so visualize such a story that it may be the lesson to all men. [John Drew]
From the foregoing, then, we would find that the conditions necessary in presenting such a story are that there be chosen first what would be the manner, or that as would be the impelling response to the character of the audience to which it is to be presented; making it so simple that the runner may read, yet so impelling that even the greater critics may find they will wag their heads.
Then, choose - and seek that it be presented in such a manner that there will be the holding to the truth, that man and his relation to his fellow man reflects his ideal of that he worships.
We are through.
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BACKGROUND

7/05/32 See 294-146, last in a series of rdgs. on scenario based on Uhjltd's incarnation in Persia-Arabia.

REPORTS

11/15/32 EC obtained dream interpretation rdg. 294-155 in re 10/30/32 vision of many of Jewish faith listening to his Sunday School class in Presbyterian Church. This was a vision while conscious, while he was teaching the class.