Edgar Cayce Readings, 531-8

Time and Place: 11:05 to 11:10 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. Philadelphia, Pa. ..., Street,

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GC: You will have before you the body and enquiring mind of [531], ... St., Philadelphia, Penna., who seeks information, advice and guidance as to the best place, the best business, and what to do as a plan for life and sustenance during the next twelve months or so. You will give the entity the advice and guidance he needs at this time.
EC: Now as we find, this body has determined in self the best courses to pursue for self. Why should there be those suggestions to upset or discourage, or even to stimulate those directions which the entity has chosen.
The answers to such activities must come from within self, according to the principles, the policies as related to the fellow man, and the IDEALS as related to spiritual desires and hopes.
As we find, the channels should be in the present environ, or in those already chosen as activities; with the stress laid upon the various products that are a part of the entity's representation of its own land.
These should be the channels. But choose thou the way ye would make application for same.
We are through for the present.
Copy to Self
Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

See 531-7 on 4/22/37 and subsequent Reports.
8/03/41 He submitted questions, verifying appointment:
What is the best place, whats the best business - what to do as a plan for life, sustenance during the next 12 months or so.
Okeh with me August 6th.

REPORTS

8/07/41 Letter:
Dear [531]:-
Do not know that the information as gotten will rate very high with you at present, hope tho there may be a thread of truth there that you may find helpful.
Let us hear from you and stop in and see us when you are round this way.
With every good wish Edgar Cayce
2/20/42 Letter:
Dear Cayce:
It has been sometime since I have written you and candidly I am still amazed, as to whether or not, you have PROVEN by results that there is a real spiritual value in life to these readings. You see, Cayce, since that time that I asked you to "look into me" and you wrote back and said nothing could be found, and since we are now at war, and candidly I am upset generally, I am wondering, wondering much as to the value of this work.
I feel sometime, that if I had someone to illustrate and help me in my life career, to perhaps control my emotions, nerves, thoughts and help me see what seems to be the "divine" - so obscure or so light, that it so hard to understand and get, I would feel better. I sit down at night and try and pray, and sometimes I do sometime I can't because my thoughts wander, and can't concentrate.
This seem to be now-a-days an evil world, and rather upset world, but I had nothing to do with the war, and I don't know where to go, when to go, how to go, what to do, and I am wondering if you can REALLY take a sleep, a deep one, one that will bring back something new to me, something that I never heard of before, something that will serve as a LIGHT.
I sit at night about 8:30 or nine in my baby's room, and while she is sleeping in the other room (she is now 7) I just sit down alone and when I am not disturbed with the neighbors radio, some noise here or there comes, and there is not much chance for meditation and concentration, but at that I look at a certain star, and glance and think, and become perplexed and don't know what or what.
And now here I am dropping you a letter, wondering - what is it all about - what shall I do to be away from evil influences, from a world, that is full of rot and dirt - what is the whole thing going to be? Hope you and yours are all feeling well, and rest assured that I shall be glad to hear from you.
Cordially [531]
2/23/42 Letter:
Dear Edgar:
You know, all these things "psychic" to me have been problematic, though I respect them, but somehow amidst my qinuietude or lack of understanding, because of fair, my nervous temperament or what have you, I don't seem to see as I seek that LIGHT, and this is the reason why I would like to be in the country, with nature, and in someway that I will just commune with what is decent and good, and be just plain, myself, and live a part from this war of avarice, greed and jealousy as you say.
I am highly nervous, and emotional, but, I am a fellow trying to be good and decent. Now old scout, next Friday I am going for Friday evening and for all day Saturday and evening and perhaps Sunday morning to a retirement, to a place that has been suggested to me by a young nun, lovely little girl, sister Emmanuel Ines. I want to be in sort of a solitude, in quietness, communion with the maker, and I want to see LIGHT a revelation, something to guide me for the future, and a way of redemption for the past. The most fair request that any man can make to his maker, a request that no MAN on earth can analyze, but perhaps, in your condition as you explain it, with UNQUESTIONABLE SINCERITY and with a purpose, under normal healthy conditions, you can help to analyze.
Don't ask me what I want to know - no, tell me what you see, what you can see. I feel that if there is a yearning for something, there must be a guidance that through word of mouth or in writing makes us force the issue or make the request. We are just automatic machines being moved by LIFE, but then too, why are we all, except a few, a bunch of bad eggs? Why can't we have peace? Is it possible that these antagonistic forces, use a hipnotic, devilish power? If so, what must be done to destroy that power, to destroy the ill thinking of fellowmen near by and far away from you?
To confuse them is not godly like, but to illuminate them, is to fight against what appears to be great odds. There must be someway that each man can walk the streets without fear of being shot, or an air raid, or arrest, or perjury, or disgrace, or something, by which EACH man in his own way, could BETTER AND BETTER himself by serving, not by destroying.
I am telling you Edgar, I am all "cock-eyed" and don't know how, when to turn around, what to do, when I do, or what. I wish there was a steady flying plane, that could take me away from earth, until the conflict is over.
Regards [531]
2/23/43 EC's letter:
Thanks for yours of the 20th - do not blame any one from putting a large ? regards any of the information of this nature - yet am just as positive could you but see the mail here even one day you would be compelled to say there must be something for some people in this stuff - yesterday had wire from a Dr. of your city - who has handled several cases there, they found their father quite ill when they visited the old home in Canada - they wired for a reading [2689].
But believe the enclosed letter and reading may help you answer the question in your own mind - read carefully - then tell me what you THINK - [See 1/08/42 EC's letter under 2678-1 & 2/03/42 rdg. 281-60].
Thanks for everything Edgar Cayce
2/25/42 Letter:
Edgar - There is something to this, someway, somehow, obscure or doubtful as it may seem. It seems to depend on the sincerity of purpose, and the questions arise, when we are amidst tribulations, troubles and hate and greed as you say. I am told that to-day everyone is being investigated, and that particularly a business man is looked into, without regards to the bill of rights and the constitution. I don't care where a man was born and why, and what his past, as long as TODAY he is good and loyal and try to get nearer to his maker. Yet, why so many people try to put down, is beyond me. Why there is a jealousy I cant understand. I have been mentally disturbed, perhaps because my wife was sick, and the arrival of the war, and the fact that I dislike war, has upset me, so much I find myself talking to myself, wondering, amazed, and hipnotized like. People begin to wonder and suspect, and I have changed from a happy go lucky free state of mind to moody. Now more than ever I pray, and sit in a small room, trying to contact my make, or something, and yet I am mentally disturbed continuously. Then too, wherever you turn around, people gaze at you, and it seems that everyone thinks bad, not good.
I have had an earnest desire to go some place, somewhere, where I could commune with God, and not mix with society or begin sort of a new again, that I may live honestly and support my wife and baby. I was even thinking that if there were some sort of a store, laundry, or some real worth while small business, something sustaining, right in your own town, which could help me to get out of this world and be in another, I would feel happier. Something where I can change, from this tumult of exports and society into a quieter realm.
What evil influence is around is beyond me, and I never felt so scared in all my life, yet I wonder why and what for? Is it a past creeping on, is the situation, is it a longing that I have to be more like God? What is it, and why is it, and all that is beyond me, but darn it, if I don't see now more than ever that it pays to be GOOD but it is hard to be good among so much filth and evil in the world to-day.
[531]
2/26/42 Letter:
Dear Edgar
I do not know of any definite time, or what have you in connection with my plans tomorrow, other than tomorrow Friday at about 5 I shall go to this retreat for sort of a communion with God, and somehow to seek enlightenment. Just like the ill doer goes to repent, I am going there to seek light.
Today we are amidst investigations, look this, look that and the fact that PEOPLE try to harm you, not do good. Few remain on earth that MAKE GOODS and help other people. I want to redeem myself in this life, my way, my method, and never to prejudice my little daughter, for whom I am working as best as I know how, so that I may leave something worth while for her when I pass from this earth.
Someway, somehow, by fear or what have you, it seems some evil influence is around me. I don't know what it is. And I am not interested in having the world of today, disturb me.
I have for many and many years conducted myself, in the best possible manner and behavior among my fellowmen, because I had the need to do it and because I know the difference between right and wrong. To-day the world is full of intrigue, dirt, filth, check up this and check up that, and IF I AM LEFT ALONE and some ONE PRAYS that I may be LEFT ALONE I will be a good and decent man, till the end of my days.
This is war and business is not so bad with me that I need cry about it, but this is war, and society, government, people, they are all imbedded in so much filth, that they don't care who they hurt or what they do - all for what? For nothing, to further badness not goodness. So I am going to be there in Warren Ave., Malvern, Penna. Tomorrow Friday after seven, all day Saturday, and all day Sunday and possibly in the evening too. This is a retreat house, known to a Catholic nun that suggested to me I go there.
[531]
He submitted questions, including:
Do you see the name of any town or city?
What prayer must I say, too keep away from me, anyone, who may seek to harm me?
To end - will you try and see in your mind now, three letters of the alphabet, three initials, which are these?
Have you anything more to say that will HELP the entity now known as "[531]" a man who is trying to do his best, and wishes divine guidance and the support of his fellowmen in the conduct of himself in society or in this world?
2/28/42 See 531-9.