This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 22nd day of May, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [707], Member of the Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

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1. GC: You will have before you the activities of [707] in relation to locating the treasure as buried by him in a past incarnation. Information as given through this channel October 23, 1934 and March 8, 1937. Questions.
2. EC: Yes, we have the information that has been given as respecting the activities of [707] as called now, in relationship to the buried treasure in another incarnation.
3. Now as we find, as has been given, this to become effective or practical in the experience of the entity in the present must arise from activities of the entity in relationship to the turning within for direction and for comprehension of what the influence will be and is as respecting not only the locating of the treasure but its use when located.
4. As has been given, there were activities, purposes, desires on the part of the individual entity at the time of putting same away.
5. That there were those experiences that prevented the entity from recovering same at the time and in using this for the furtherance of the ideas and the ideals of the entity during that individual experience is evidenced by the information that it is possible for the entity, in the present experience in the earth, to do same.
6. The activities, desires, and the influences that are the motivating forces in the experience that may bring same about, then, must necessarily arise from within and not from without. For these would then as in that experience defeat the very purpose of the entity in its spiritual, in its mental desire.
7. Then, as has been indicated, at that season when the movements of the elements within the natural body (physically) may coordinate with the mental and spiritual body (mentally), there should be the seeking. This was indicated, or may be indicated by the period when certain plants are in active force, or in bloom; for this becomes then not as a part of but an evidence, a sign, an omen of the period being present when in the natural forces - as combined between mental and spiritual experiences - the entity may be directed from within, by the motivative forces that move within self.
8. But if the entity listens to that as may be said by old men's tales or that which is purely hearsay, then the entity loses its hold upon those forces that have been given, "Abide in me, and I in the Father may bring to thy remembrance ALL from the foundations of the earth."
9. Then if the entity will be guided by that which has been just indicated, and only by that force and influence from within, there may be hopes of a fulfilling of purposes within self.
10. Do not confuse present and past - they are one, if the entity, the soul, will make itself attuned to the whole purpose of Creative Energies and forces that manifest themselves in the activities of the individual.
11. Ready for questions.
12. (Q) Will it be the proper time to go now?
    (A) As has been given, such decisions are to be directed by that within self that answers to the influences or forces from without - but the answers and directions must come from within; rather than by any helping hand.
    Rememberest thou all that has been given as to the manner in which the individual finds self? Did Moses receive direction save by the period in the Mount? Did Samuel receive rather than by the meditating within his own closet? Did David not find more in the meditating within the valley and the cave? Did not the Master in the Mount and in the Garden receive the answers of those directing forces?
    These as directions, these as omens, these as signs ONLY, and the direction from the inward closer walk with thine inner self and thy purposes and thy desire.
    Are they in accord with that which ye would present before the Throne of mercy and grace, to Him who is the Giver and Maker of all?
    Then thy spirit bears witness with His Spirit in the directions that ye shall take.
13. (Q) Is the place located by [707] in his last trip to Alabama the correct vicinity of the treasure?
    (A) Is not this question in itself evading the work, evading the activity that must be done by [707] now? Isn't the question out of line with that just given? Is the self willing to abide by the purposes that made the self in the period it was put there as one to be reckoned with in not only the dealings with those of its own people but those who made overtures that prompted the giving of that the entity saved for the development of the better influences in the experience of all?
    Thus the entity must turn within. Seek rather to find not what others have said to that as will be guided by the self within, but rather to the camp or to that place where there were the dwellings of the entity's peoples during that experience.
14. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 5/18/37 Wife [688]'s ltr.: "I think we understood better when HL left re the Ala. search. HL arranged some ques., so please let us hear. [707] has not been so well, I think he feels a keen disappointment, but we hope something will work out to our & your advantage."

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