This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 28th day of January, 1933, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [538], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. [538], Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

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1. GC: You will have before you the soul body and enquiring mind of [538], present in this room, and all conditions, circumstances and associations that surround and affect her in various ways, especially regarding her home life. You will give a mental and spiritual reading for this entity, giving the advice and counsel and that information which will be of most help and benefit to her in her development. You will answer the questions which she will submit regarding these and all phases of her life.
2. EC: We have the body, the enquiring mind, the soul mind, and experiences that are in the active forces in the experiences of the entity in the present.
3. In giving counsel or advice for any experience, or for the vicissitudes that may present themselves in any one experience, especially as related to home or environs of same, it would be well that there be those first principles set that would be the guide, or the standard by which any judgements might be passed. THEN, when variations come, the entity may know wherewithal there is to be met the conditions that may present themselves as problems, tasks, experiences, and wherewithal these shall be tempered or judged.
4. First, the home (with its environs) - in the penal law - is classified as one's own castle, one's own domain, to do with according to the dictates of one's own conscience.
5. But, what is the impelling force of one's conscience?
6. Then, there is the classification of the home as to the mental and spiritual attributes or position of same. Then, there may be the same judgements or considerations from the purely material.
7. The home represents, then, that which is as the haven, as the material representation of an abiding place, a home, for the developing of the mental, moral and spiritual relationships of those herein, as a counterpart of that for which one longs in the heavenly home or in the spiritual kingdom.
8. From the spiritual conditions or positions, then, the home should be that which is the material and mental expression of the at-onement with the Father, for harmony, peace, glorification, all those conditions that bespeak of the associations that are in an at-onement with Him.
9. This, then, is the ideal - in such a place as may be called home.
10. In self, then, it is the making of preparations and the activities of self as in relation to same, that are presented as concrete in the activities and the experiences of self, [538], as related to its various spheres of activity.
11. Having chose, then, that which IS the body's standard in the various relationships, what IS there that presents in the experience of self those conditions that have arisen and do arise as problems in connection or association with same, that at times to the body-mental becomes so devastating to the mental equilibrium of the body?
12. Considering that the Mental is the Builder, what IS the physical or the spiritual relationship that has brought about such conditions that remain in the experience of the entity, or body, or soul consciousness? What is to be done about the varying conditions in the mental attitudes that are to be assumed, or that are to be experienced from one period to another?
13. These are then, as we find, the counterpart of the entity's experiences through the various sojourns, (as earth's in-dwelling in the various experiences) and the activity as to what the entity in its entirety has (through those experiences) met or done respecting that the entity or body, through the experience, held AS the ideal during that particular experience.
14. Hence the variation in that that is called karma in the experience of an entity, and that that is cleansed or removed - in ANY experience of a soul or entity, or body-consciousness, respecting the ideal.
15. Then, in the present, know that these all have their particular act or place in the development of the soul in the NOW, respecting that which IS the ideal in relation ship to same. What the entity does ABOUT same in the present is that which is being builded for the development or retardment of the soul's experience.
16. How are these met? By having at all times the promise, through that kinship of the Maker in self, and now having the advocate with the Father through the sonship of the Son of man, that consciousness as related to that held AS the standard - and the ideals - as related to the various phases of the home in its relationship to self. With that same gladness that He showed the way, meet these in self; knowing that, that which is thine own may not be taken from thee - only by self's turning back upon same or giving same away, by the acts of self in the breaking or in the adverse to ANY of those three phases of the home or its experience.
17. Ready for questions.
18. (Q) How can I better meet and overcome those special conditions I have in mind, that cause mental distress and worry?
    (A) By meeting them in Him; for, as has been pointed out, it is only as to what one DOES respecting one's ideal, rather than as the expression of self in either the mental, the material, or the spiritual attributes of same.
19. (Q) Why do I feel, in a way, at war with myself so much and so often?
    (A) Because there is not at all times other than self-condemnation in the feelings that are held respecting others or their attitude. This makes the experiences in the position of INCOORDINATING with that ideal that is claimed by self.
20. (Q) What causes physical suffering at times from mental worry?
    (A) Incoordination, from the experiences that AFFECT the body as relating to the activities of the mental and spiritual THROUGH the material attributes of the spiritual and soul body. As there were those experiences in the sojourns when there were the PHYSICAL activities on the part of self towards others, as related to the affections that the body-self choked, then self is experiencing that in the MENTAL of self in the present.
21. (Q) Why does it come at times when apparently no cause?
    (A) Fear - within self. FEAR. Fear is as the fruit of indecisions respecting that which is lived and that which is held as the ideal. Doubt is as the father of fear. Remember, as He gave, "He that asks in my name, doubting not, shall have; for I go to the Father." If doubt has crept in, it becomes as the father of fear. Fear is as the beginning of faltering. Faltering is as that which makes for dis-ease throughout the soul and mental body.
22. (Q) Please explain and clarify the KARMIC conditions which I should understand and meet, in order to be a better wife, mother and friend, and fill more adequately my place in this work?
    (A) There has been given those outlines as to the varied experiences that were held by the entity in the appearances, and associations with varied individuals that comprise the household in the present, and the activities of the mental body as related to those who only in part - or through other experiences - brought activities in their experience. Then, with that just given above, there may be seen the varying forces that produce karmic influence. But, that that may be found in oneness with that of "He - God - is One", and making self in an at-onement, is not only DENYING any other influence but acting in the way knowing that He will bear thee up - and give His angels charge concerning thee in the way thou goest, lest thou dash thine self against a barrier. Then, when there arises those experiences where FEAR comes from faltering in self or another, FORCE self - by WILL - "I WILL!" - to give, live and KNOW that He doeth all things WELL in and through the expression of the Father in every soul! Then may the body in the present, the body-consciousness, the mental-consciousness, have that peace that passeth understanding, that comes from an at-onement in the consciousness of His love dwelling within.
23. We are through.

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BACKGROUND

1. See previous readings.

REPORTS

1. 2/05/33 See 262-37, Par. 12-A, personal message on Cross and Crown.
2. 3/16/33 Husband wrote that [538] was hardly able to speak above a whisper, had such an awful cold and had been really sick.
3. 6/11/33 See 262-47, Par. 12-A, personal message on lesson LOVE.
4. See subsequent Ck. Physical Rdgs.
5. 11/08/33 See Source File Key #538 for Life Seal by Miss [275] [see 275-11 Reports] as visioned in meditation, according to Edgar Cayce's reading which told her she could do this for all those who had been associated with her in the Ra-Ta period in Egypt re 538-33.
6. See large color print in A.R.E. Library reference book of Aura Chart Readings.
7. 2/11/34 See 262-58, Par. 22-A, personal message on God and His Manifestations.
8. 4/08/34 Mrs. [538]'s mother, Mrs. [265], died.
9. 7/15/34 See 262-67, Par. 16-A in re lesson on DESIRE.
10. 9/13/34 She obtained business rdg. 538-38 in regard to refinancing her home.
11. 9/23/34 See 262-72, Par. 18-A message on lesson DESIRE.
12. 1/06/35 See 262-75, Par. 31-A message on lesson DESTINY.
13. See 262-86, Par. 41-A personal message on DESTINY.
14. 12/22/35 See 262-91, Par. 28-A personal message on GLORY.
15. 10/24/36 Husband's letter: "My father [304] is old and not in the best of health, and is a hardship for [538], but she is as good or better to him than any of his three daughters."
16. 7/19/36 See 262-98, Par. 14-A personal message on lesson KNOWLEDGE.
17. 6/20/37 See 262-109, Par. 27-A personal message on HAPPINESS.
18. 10/29/37 See Ck. Physical 538-47, Par. 7-A giving her helpful affirmation for meditation.
19. 12/20/37 See her SFG II on Spirit exp. in 1504-1, Par. R1.
20. 8/23/39 Husband's letter requesting Ck. Physical 538-55: "Hope she can get better soon, for it breaks the whole house up to have her sick."
21. 10/19/38 She obtained Ck. Life Rdg. 538-59 on her Grecian incarnation.
22. See subsequent Ck. Physical Rdgs., indicating her husband's loving care and consideration for her.
23. 8/26/41 EC consciously read her aura - see under 5746-1 Reports.
24. 1/25/42 She obtained an Aura Chart Rdg., 538-72.
25. See subsequent notations under Life Rdg. 538-9 Reports.

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