This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 10th day of March, 1931, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [341].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [341], [243], [304] and [340].

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1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of [341], present in this room. Please advise and guide me in my attempt to bring the physical body to a point where it may be a better channel for the manifestation of the spirital forces. Please answer the questions I will ask.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [341]. This we have had before. There are changes in the physical forces of the body since last we had same here.
3. There are corrections to be made in the physical structure of the body, [if the body would] would the body be the better channel for the manifestations of the phenomena of life, even in the material plane.
4. Would the body [if the body would] in its functioning through those of the organs of the physical forces be the bettered, then the better operation, the better and nearer functioning of the organs will make for a better PHYSICAL body - as in the sensory system, that makes for conditions as respecting the vision-physical. There are the needs of corrections in the upper dorsal and the cervical region, that the impingements, the strains that have produced the elongation in optic forces, may be the bettered. It will be found that after a period it would be well to change the glasses to meet or to coincide with the changes that will take place, and within three to six moons the body-physical should be able to quit the use of glasses at all. [See 341-31, Par. R2.]
5. There is also an unbalancing of the vitamins in the physical functioning of the body. There is the lack of elements that make for physical structural forces of body.
6. WHEN the MENTAL is used in such a manner, THIS partakes of a different condition than when the PHYSICAL forces are exercised in the body. It would be well for the body to so conduct, so arrange the activities of the body as to be better BALANCED as to the mental and the physical attributes of the body. Take more outdoor exercise, that - that brings into play the muscular forces of the body. It isn't that the mental should be numbed, or should be cut off from their operations or their activities - but make for a more evenly, more perfectly balanced body-physical AND mental. Know how to apply the rules of METAPHYSICAL operations to a corncob, or to a fence rail, or to a hammer, an axe, a walking cane, as well as the THEORIES of this, that, or other mind, that in nine cases in ten is seen to become a storehouse for mental deficiencies of PHYSICAL energies! Now get the difference! It is not mental unbalance, but a mental body may be so OVERUSED as to allow physical energies to become DETRIMENTAL forces IN A PHYSICAL BODY; for each energy MUST expend itself in SOME direction, even as a thought that takes form brings in to being a mental image. Is that image in the position of being a BUILDING force cooperative with the energies of the physical body? Or do they DESTROY some motive force in the physical without allowing an outlet for its activity?
7. Then, be a well-ROUNDED body. Take specific, DEFINITE exercises morning and evening. Make the body PHYSICALLY, as well as mentally, tired and those things that have been producing those conditions where sleep, inertia, poisons in system from non-eliminations, will disappear - and so will the body respond to the diets.
8. Now, in the matter of diets - ONE activity is necessary, if there is to be a mental diet - or if there is to be a diet for a well-rounded PHYSICALLY useful, MENTALLY useful, SPIRITUALLY useful body. But there is the lack of vitamins as B and C, in this body. One, the C, stamina for mental energies that are carried in the white tissue in nerve energy and plexus. B, as is of calcium, of silicon, of iron. These would be well-balanced, will those [if those will be taken] of the food values that carry same be taken, but UNLESS the activities physical for the body are such as to put same into ACTIVITY they become drosses and set THEMSELVES to become operative, irrespective of OTHER conditions. (This as aside, but as very well in keeping with the circumstances or conditions.) Vitamins in a body are elements that are combative with, or in opposition to, the various activities of a living organism, and may be termed - and well termed - as those of bacilli of any nature within a human or physical organism. That's what we are talking of, or dealing with in this body.
9. Now, when these are taken into the system, if they are NOT put to work by the ACTIVITIES of the SYSTEM - either physical or mental - they become DESTRUCTIVE tissue, for they AFFECT the plasm [plasma] of the blood supply or the emunctory and lymph which is another name for a portion of a blood supply in a system.
10. Then, in the meeting of the diet - be sure the activities, physically, and mentally, are in keeping with; and DO NOT DO these SPASMODICALLY, but BE consistent - for the physical body, the mental body, the spiritual body, is as "Grow in grace, in knowledge, in understanding." [2 Pet. 3:18]
11. That thou eatest, SEE it DOING that THOU would HAVE it do. Now there is often considered as to why do those of either the vegetable, mineral, or combination compounds, have different effects under different conditions? It is the CONSCIOUSNESS of the INDIVIDUAL BODY! Give one a dose of clear WATER, with the impression that it will act as salts - how often will it act in that manner?
12. Just as the impressions to the whole of the organism, for each cell of the blood stream, each corpuscle, is a whole UNIVERSE in itself. Do not eat like a canary and expect to do MANUAL labor. Do not eat like a rail splitter and expect to do the work of a mind reader or a university professor, but be CONSISTENT with those things that make for - even as the UNIVERSE is builded. In the layers of one is dependent upon the activity of another. One that fills the mind, the the very being, with an expectancy of God will see His movement, His manifestation, in the wind, the sun, the earth, the flowers, the inhabitant OF the earth; and so as is builded in the body, is it to gratify JUST an appetite, or is it taken to fulfill an office that WILL the better make, the better magnify, that the body, the mind, the soul, HAS chosen to stand FOR? and it will not matter so much what, where, or WHEN - but knowing THAT it is consistent with that - that is desired to be accomplished THROUGH that body!
13. As has been given of old, when the children of Israel stood with the [Dan. 1:5-8] sons of the heathen and all ate from the king's table, that which was taken that only exercised the imagination of the body in physical desires - as strong drink, strong meats, condiments that magnify desires within the body - this builded as Daniel well understood, not for GOD'S service - but he chose rather that the EVERYDAY, the common things would be given, that the bodies, the minds, might be a more perfect channel for the manifestations of GOD; for the forces of the Creator are in EVERY force that is made manifest IN the earth.
14. Few are able, even as the prophet of old, [I Kings 19:11-12] to see God in battle, in the shedding of blood, in the thunder, in the lightning, in the earthquake, in the various tumults in nature - but ALL may experience Him in the still small voice within! Do THOU likewise, and the body is the temple OF the living God, and is a REASONABLE service that we present same holy and acceptable unto Him. [Rom. 12:1]
15. Just as great a sin to OVER eat as to over drink; to over THINK as to over act! IN that thou buildest, do even as He. Make thine body, thine MIND, ready for EVERY occasion that arises in the life. Think well on what was given, "WHY could not WE cast him out? Such is done only - ONLY - through fasting and prayer." [Luke 11:33] When thou prayest, enter into thine closet - that is, within self - not shutting oneself away from the world, but closing self to God's PRESENCE, and pray in secret and the reward will be in the open; for, as was given, "Men do not light a candle and put it under a bushel, but it is set - SET - on a hill, that it may give LIFE, light, unto all."
16. So, in conducting thine own life - make the physical corrections necessary, yes - but make also thy mind and thine body, thine going in and thine coming out, thine activities day by day, consistent WITH - and the reward will be - an exemplary life, a GOODLY body, an OPEN mind, a LOVING spirit!
17. Few may show forth that even felt in the heart with the liver bad, for twice does the blood pass through the liver to once in the heart. The liver is the clearing house both for that of the blood in and out of the heart and lungs. So in the conduct of the life, in the study, think twice before you speak once - for there's only ONE tongue but two eyes. There is only ONE heart but seven lobes in the liver; and in thine hands - use that thou hast, and thine eye will be SINGLE in service, thine tongue will be loosed in the right direction.
18. Ready for questions.
19. (Q) What condition is causing the rapid decay of the teeth and what should be done to correct this other than the steps already taken?
    (A) This has been given, and this has been outlined.
    There should be the change to meet those necessary conditions in the supply of the system, that there may be more calcium, more silicon, and more iron added in same.
    These will be with physical activities of the body, and with the taking of foods as compatible with the conditions as to be met.
    Those in the food values as would be taken, ARE the activities [if the activities are] to be in keeping WITH same, would be those of the fruits of the ground, those of the leafy vegetables, those that carry magnesia [-ium?], iron, silicon, calcium, and such - see?
    Not too much with the use of those that carry phosphorus and the like, for these WASTE away.
    Don't eat too many oysters, nor too much seafoods - but SUFFICIENTLY balanced in these, dependent upon the activities of the body.
    Outline as to what the activities are to be! Then there may be a PERFECT balance in a diet!
20. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. See 341-29 on 2/25/29 with special reference to teeth and gums, and long standing myopia.

REPORTS

1. 4/20/31 He obtained Ck. Physical 341-32.
2. 5/11/73 GD's note: About a yr. ago [341] told me that at long last he has been able to discard his glasses; he doesn't even need them for driving.
3. 2/28/85 GD's note: Much of 341-31 was used in THE SEARCHLIGHT article of July, 1957 entitled THE BODY IS THE TEMPLE, taken from GDT's talk delivered at the A.R.E. Sunday Forum, 4/07/57.

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