Edgar Cayce Readings, 716-1

(Physical Suggestion)

TEXT

EC: Yes, we have the body and those conditions physically, and that attitude mentally which has hindered and does hinder in the application of those things that might be helpful in the present; also those conditions that hinder the better physical manifestations through this body.
As to the approach this body is making in the present, first we find that the body should analyze self, self's own attitude to the conditions that surround the body; those things from the mental and the material aspects that have hindered and do hinder - and we will find that much of this has been and is of the nature that from self-indulgences in the present, in the past, there has been brought into the experience of the entity those things that may and must be accorded in self, as to the usefulness, the purposefulness, those active desires for the body to make for a regeneration within self sufficiently that - if there are to be brought about within the physical forces of the body itself that which would make for the abilities for the body to cope with conditions - the body may act under those influences wherein there has not as yet been the activity within self as to not condemn someone else. For those influences that have made for the blames for this, that and the other experience, have come about, that are mostly of thine own making! Yet what would be accomplished within self if there were made those things in the physical forces that would make for the abilities for the body to meet and match with those influences about it, to wrest from the manifested influences and forces about the body that which would make for its equaling, that which would make for its comparing of self and self's abilities with those of its fellow man? WHAT would be thine own attitude, then?
Again, would the body bring onto self those things that would only answer for, and make for the activities within its own associations that would make for the aggrandizement of self's own interests? Or would the body rather merit and meet its spiritual aptitude such as to use its abilities in a service for its fellow man? Would it give of itself? Not in its own way, but in the way that the divine influences would guide - that come into the experience of each and every soul, that must be met within the heart and within the aptitude of the individual itself; for its own soul's development, the soul being that portion of every individual and every entity that must live on - and on - and on!
Then, if the attitude of self to those conditions and experiences through which the entity is passing in the present continues to make for this condemnation - with the wreck that is made within the body itself, and the little responses that are made to those influences from without - how must these be met?
Only first, then, if the body will make for that determination, that concentration, that CONSECRATION of its manner of THINKING, into and through those influences that may be accorded within self, THEN may there be able to be given - through such channels as these - that which may bring for the body that which may be helpful and hopeful, for that determination. And it is what measure ye mete that it may be measured to thee again, as to thine own PHYSICAL status, as to thine own mental status, as to those influences and forces within self. THEN may we meet those conditions within self that have made for, do make for, the inroads upon the physical activities - in the overtautness in portions of the system, where there has been the deviation from those influences that make for production of an even coordination through a physical body; that may be used as for making the world itself - its environs, its surroundings, its OWN associations - a better place for the entity having lived in same!
What, you ask then, are the physical conditions that are disturbing the forces of the body? These are evident within themselves from the physical conditions that are shown in the various portions of the system. Has the body sought?
If the body physically and mentally seeks for self, or that it may become a greater, a better, a more nominal channel through which the abilities - the birthright, the soul - may manifest for the glorification of the creative energies or forces that are manifested in the life of every living object, condition, experience or soul or body, THEN we may aid.
We are through with THIS reading, for the present.
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BACKGROUND

10/26/34 Mr. [417], friend of Mr. [730], phoned for appointment for [716].
10/30/34 He sent form giving address, age, etc.

REPORTS

11/07/34 A.M. Mr. [716] and his father were present for 720-1, for his mother.
11/07/34 P.M. He was present with his father and Uncle [730] for 716-2, at which time we learned that [716]'s condition was called multiple sclerosis.