This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 30th day of January, 1926, in accordance with request made by self - [341].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [341].

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the entity now known as [341], present in this room, and the appearances in the earth plane, especially that one known as Andrew, during the time of the Christ. You will give an outline of the life during this period, and how this entity may use the influence from that appearance during the present sojourn, laying particular emphasis on the present life's work. You will also answer any questions I ask you regarding this.
2. EC: Yes, we have the entity here, and those relations with the experiences of the entity in the earth's plane, and as how same may be applied in the present, through the urges as are manifested in the present by that experience.
3. This experience then, especially in that physical body known as Andrew, we find the entity then the second brother in a family of four, and in the early childhood one willful in many ways, taking up the physical vocation of the parents and brother, and in the days when John [the Baptist] began to teach in the wilderness, the entity, the body (physical), Andrew, became first an adherent and a disciple of that teacher, and remained close as an aide, from first conviction, until the appearance of Jesus to become the disciple of the entity's master. When pointed out by John as the one that should be greater, and increase as he decreased, Andrew then followed the new leader into the wilderness, and was close with Him during the temptation, as is recorded by Matthew, and when the return to the seashore, sought out the brother, [Peter] telling of those ideas, ideals, as were propounded by Him who had been pointed out, and became the close disciple then of the Teacher and Master, following close throughout the whole physical career of the Master; not as the chosen three, yet one as is given often the greater physical conditions to do and to carry out. One often spoken to for the reference to others, and this is particularly seen, especially, upon two occasions: In the feeding of the multitudes in the entrance to the city for the evening lodgement to keep the Passover. In the entering into the Garden on the last evening.
4. The entity, then, among those who held the higher attitude towards the spiritual teachings of the Master, and to understand the full conception of that conception obtained, or that full consciousness obtained or gotten in this appearance, is then necessary to understand WHY the entity has chosen oft in the physical earth plane to manifest lessons gained, or, as is to be termed in slang parlance, often has the entity chosen to seek, to know, "why the wheels go around," from the physical action and the spiritual insight that impels same.
5. After the dispersing of the followers when persecutions came, the entity, Andrew, then went into Mesopotamia, and those countries where the entity felt that the learning of the Master was obtained, during the early education of the Master, and the travels of the Master, see?
6. Then, the entity remained true to that teaching, and brought MANY to the knowledge of God that IS within every human physical being that seeks to know how same manifests through the individual.
7. The lessons, then, as obtained, and how the entity may apply same in the present physical plane:
8. There is seen, then, the urge as is given, as to how every measure of any truth is compared to that Master's teaching in the present, for, as is seen, when this is correlated with intent and purpose, and the first urge as is seen in a physical manifestation, this to the entity becomes the sin qui non of power, force, of manifesting forces in the physical, spiritual, mental world, and the application in the present is to ever weigh those experiences in the present, measuring them up to that standard as is seen and known, and felt, as is superior, and as high above all others as the heavens above the earth; as superior as the Sun's light is to the Moon's dull rays; as great as the winds are to the stench that rises from foul forces exhumed from the low places; as great as the mountains above the plains; and as the entity keeps these ideals, these principles, applied in the teaching, the writings, the labors of the day, so may this lesson, this experience, gain for the entity that necessary to draw nigh unto that drawing force that gives the great impelling entity the effect of the Master.
9. We are through with this reading.

BACKGROUND

1. See 341-1 and 341-8.

REPORTS

1. 8/17/27 He obtained Ck. Life 341-24.
2. 3/16/37 See Ck. Life Rdg. 341-44 indicating the greater influence in the present toward the spiritual insight, the speaking comes from the incarnation as Andrew.
3. See subsequent notations under 341-8 Reports.
4. THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT, Sunday, Sept. 27, 1964.
   ST. ANDREW'S HEAD RETURNED
   PATRAI, Greece (AP) - Thousands of Greeks watched a Vatican mission return Saturday the head of St. Andrew the Apostle to Patrai from Rome where it had been for five centuries.
   It was a gesture of good will by the Roman Catholic Church toward the Orthodox Church of Greece, but Archbishop Chrysostomos, primate of Greece, did not come here for the ceremony. He has been cool toward overtures from Rome.
   Augustin Cardinal Bea, president of the Vatican's Secretariat for Christian Unity, led the 10-member Vatican mission. He formally gave the head of the apostle to Metropolitan Constantinos of Patrai, the city where St. Andrew was beheaded nearly 2,000 years ago and where he is deeply venerated.
   Cardinal Bea said he and his mission will go to Athens Monday and hope to see Archbishop Chrysostomos.
   Seven Metropolitans of the 12-member Holy Synod that rules the Greek church walked in gold-threaded robes behind Metropolitan Constantinos as he carried the relic from the city's main square through gaily decorated streets to the 100-year-old Church of St. Andrew.
   VATICAN EXTENDS OLIVE BRANCH
   The Roman Catholic Church took three major steps to promote Christian unity and racial equality Saturday, demonstrating its desire to open Roman Catholicism to fresh contacts with the modern world.
   The developments were:
   Pope Paul VI, his cardinals and bishops voted sainthood for 22 African Negroes.
   A special Vatican mission carried the head of St. Andrew to Greece in a gesture of friendship toward the Church of Greece. Archbishop John Carmel Heenan of Westminister, England, vowed that efforts will be made to make a declaration on the Jews "satisfactory to our Jewish brothers."

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