This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at 1867 Kalorama Road, Washington, D.C., this 1st day of February, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [707], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [707] and Mrs. [264].

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1. GC: You will have before you the body and soul mind of [707], present in this room, who seeks information as to his former appearances in the earth, also counsel and guidance as to how he may best use that gained for the spiritual development of self and others in the present. Questions.
2. EC: Yes, we have the entity, the enquiring mind, [707], present in this room, with the information that has been given respecting the activities of the soul-entity in material form through experiences in the earth.
3. In making the application of same, as indicated, in the summing up of the abilities of the entity in the present, it is following intuitively, innately, those awakenings through the experiences when the entity proclaimed, "The acceptable year of the Lord is at hand," when with psalms and hymns of praise the entity may raise within self that light, that awareness of the presence of that divine influence which is the heritage of every soul; those directions that may be given to the entity or conscious mind in making for the kindnesses, gentlenesses, that may make aware in the minds and experiences of others the fact that the Lord is nigh.
4. Ready for questions.
5. (Q) Who comes to me when my consciousness is partially submerged, and how can I be receptive to, or understand their message?
   (A) Who better than thy better self, or that thou hast been or hast taught or thought in thine inner self? It is the remembering, as it were, the vision of thine inner self. What more wonderful can there be than to know that self's own ego, self's own I AM with the spirit of truth and life, has made aware within self that thou hast been called by name? Not another name, for there be no name under heaven whereby men may be saved than in His name! Then, as these awarenesses arise within thine inner self and thou seest thine own self, speak as with thy Lord and thy Master, and thou wilt come to hear more and more even as He has given, "If ye will but harken I will come and abide with thee."
6. (Q) How can I use the astronomical, the numerical, the environs of the creations in the vibrations from metal, from stones, which influence me, to advantage in my present life?
   (A) As these are but lights, but signs in thine experience, they are as but a candle that one stumbles not in the dark. But worship NOT the light of the candle; rather that to which it may guide thee in thy service. So, whether from the vibrations of numbers, of metals, of stones, these are merely to become the necessary influences to make thee in attune, one with the Creative Forces; just as the pitch of a song of praise is not the song nor the message therein, but is a helpmeet for those that would find strength in the service of the Lord. So, use them to attune self. How, ye ask? As ye apply, ye are given the next step.
7. (Q) Should I carry these stones on my person? and how may I know thru meditation the message they would give me?
   (A) If necessary. And how may ye know? These do not give the messages! They only attune self that the Christ Consciousness may give the message! Listen to no message of a stone, of a number, even of a star; for they are but servants of the Lord and Master of all - even as thou!
8. (Q) How may I awaken my astrological experiences in the present to be used to advantage in my service to man?
   (A) Live that in the present that thou understandest, and the next step is given. As ye meditate, as ye open thyself, the way is shown. These questions are all answered, my friend, my brother, in that given. It is SELF with the Christ that meets thee in the temple of the living God, where ye would indeed worship; not made with hands, not stone nor steel, not sticks nor mortar! But rather be as one with Him, and ye will have the promise, "I will bring to thy remembrance ALL that thou needest from the foundations of the world." Who, what, how, but HIM! Who is the Maker? Who IS the author? Who is light? Who is time? Who is space? The SON! that through His love for His brethren - for thou, thine self - gave all that ye might have the greater, the closer communion with Him.
9. (Q) State exact location of conduit, placed by me in another incarnation, near Talladega, Ala., through which healing waters flowed?
   (A) In the site where thy peoples were, the red men, the sons of La [?] and those peoples from the temple in Poseidia. There we find, as indicated, the medicine man, the mystic, the sage, the teacher, made for his people a resting place, through those periods after the hunting seasons in the north toward the mighty falls and the rock that's made salt, through those darkened bloody grounds where there were those mighty people, they gathered again to listen to the words of the teacher. The entity then builded the cedar conduits where there might be carried the sustenance to those places, or tents, or tepees of rest; where only among those peoples there was found even a semblance of a hospital or a place of care or rest set aside. Hence by the stream that carries the waters that are yet helpful to those who have received the infectious forces from contaminated waters, the disturbances of a digestive system, the fevers and such. Most of this is faded, filled in; yet the camping site to the south and west of that known as Talladega may be easily pointed out by any. There upon the banks of that stream now most hidden may there be found same. Then, when the entity, the body in the present seeks SELF, in self, to know of self upon the same grounds, there may come those that walked with Him, in self, with self, to know not only where the possessions of the entity may be found, that were to stand as an understanding of brotherly love between his own blood later as he entered again, not only those places where peace was declared, where there are the jewels, gold and the like buried, but those emblems of peace to those peoples in that day. Seek in self to find. There may be pointers through these sources, but there must be the real finding by self.
10. (Q) Are these treasures and jewels buried in that stream - ?
    (A) (Interrupting) Listen, my brother, to what has been said; listen to what has been said! Do not confuse thine self nor stumble over thine own feet, nor thine own hands!
11. (Q) How could I rightly use this when I find it?
    (A) Only by first the dedicating of self and self's abilities to the service of thy God, and that wilt be directed only by Him in the manner this would be used. Not as to what someone else would direct, but that thou wilt be directed by Him!
12. (Q) How can I finance the trip there to find this?
    (A) Let it take its course, its time. For when the flowers bloom again, when the Jack in the Pulpit, when the blossom of the eagle flower comes again, then ye may sing the song not only of the moon in its glory but thou wilt be shown the way, the manner, if thou wilt but dedicate thyself, thy substance, thy strength, to Him.
13. (Q) Should I make the investigation alone, or who would help me?
    (A) How else? Such silly questions, with what you are receiving!
14. (Q) In the statement, "Thou may use much of that thou hast preserved for material aid," does it refer to the buried gold?
    (A) ALL that thou hast of thine self, of thine substance; and this is thine substance.
15. (Q) In my experience in Rome and Greece, what were "those understandings, tenets, teachings of the man of Galilee?"
    (A) Walk in the light, even as He is in the light, with thine eye single to the service in the light of Him and His ways. These are the tenets, or as He gave, the first and the great commandment, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with ALL thine heart, thine mind, thine soul, and thy neighbor as thyself." And "As ye do it to these, my brethren, ye do it to me. I abide in the Father, ye abide in me, I in the Father, ye in me may be one." These are the tenets, these are the manners that ye present it to thy brethren. These ye heard as the dictates of thy walks among thy brethren. These ye may hold this day; not ever a grudge, not ever an unkind word or thought; these be the fruits of the spirit. "Ye abiding in me may abide in that light that makes the roughest ways but as a way to that peace in Him." For, "Love ye one another."
16. We are through for the present.

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REPORTS

1. 3/35 Ltr. from Mrs. [264]: "Mr. [707] came by and asked me to send you the enclosed $1 as a payment on his reading."
2. 3/22/35 See 707-3.
3. 2/24/36 Mrs. [264]'s ltr.: "A few weeks ago a man was arrested here because his car was throwing off a volume of smoke, and was to appear at Court the next morning. That night Mr. [707] prayed for the man, and when the man went to Court the next morning the Judge said the case had been thrown out of Court."
4. 5/05/36 See 688-4 re healing work with Mr. [707].

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