This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at 1851 Columbia Road, Washington, D.C., this 9th day of April, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [802], new Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [802].

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1. HLC: You will have before you the entity, Mr. [802], present in this room. You will give a mental and spiritual reading for this entity, with special relation to his affairs and guidance for further development in this period.
2. EC: Yes, we have the entity here, [802]; this we have had before in relations to the activities of the entity in the earth.
3. In giving the mental and spiritual understanding or interpretations, that which is prompting in its activities in the earth, in the relationships to its own self, we find:
4. If it seeks for the soul development, then turn within. For, what may be given as truths, as axioms, as those influences that may make for the awareness of the divine, these become as sounding brass if there is not the desire, the impelling influence, the activity from within, to make manifest love - that makes for that which will exalt in the earth, in the relationships with the fellow man, that which is the ideal, the hope, the understanding of the entity.
5. When the ideal is founded in materiality, it is too oft found - when man has paid the price for fame, for fortune, for position, for power - that it is as naught; something lacking yet. Too oft is this found; unless that which is prompting the desire, the hopes, is founded in the spiritual life, in the inner self, as to the glory of that which gives life itself. With this as the prompting, though, one may find peace and harmony, and that which passeth understanding in WHATEVER realm is necessary, for the advancement, for the making aware of that in the experience - of that abiding grace - that comes from living that even as He gave, "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." For this is the law from the beginning. As ye manifest, not to an unseen God, not simply to that necessary for the laying aside of those things that make for satisfactions in the material life, but glorifying them. For the purposes are the glorifying of Him. For he that seeketh the Lord and findeth Him shall have "all these things added" as it becometh necessary.
6. Be patient; be kind; show brotherly love. Making for those things that are of the spirit becometh, then, the basis for the activities in the earth, and His promises are faithful that, "Ye abiding in me, I in the Father, ye shall ask in my name and it will be done unto thee." Even the desire of thy heart concerning thy spiritual life.
7. Ready for questions.
8. (Q) I have been working literally day and night to build an organization of capable, decent people. Each time I bend over backward to help someone in distress and manufacture a good job for them I am condemned by others. And, generally, I find I am later condemned by the person helped. Is it worthwhile to continue or should I judge entirely by sad past experience?
   (A) What matter though the man lose the world if he gains his own soul? Patience maketh one aware of his soul. As ye deal to others, so will it be dealt to thee. This is the unfailing, the unfaltering principle, the law - LOVE. As ye seek, as ye do, though the whole WORLD condemn thee, though the others forsake thee, forsake NOT those principles that make for the satisfying of that thou hast set, thou dost set as an ideal! Be PATIENT and ye shall see the glory of the Father manifested in the lives, not only of those that have condemned or do condemn thee for thy singleness of purpose but in doing that which maketh for oneness in thy relationships to thy fellow man ye shall SEE that they - thy efforts - shall not, will not, go unrewarded in ANY direction. Be patient.
   First learn to be patient with self, then ye will know patience with thy fellow man. GIVE thy work - thy relations with thy fellow man, IN thy work - a SOUL, as it were, or the awareness that honesty, truth, justice, mercy are those things that WILL and DO build in every field of activity.
9. (Q) The firm I am working for put me off from time to time on my requests for a reasonable return for time and effort expended in their behalf. Have I made a mistake in not looking elsewhere for another position, or should I continue my efforts for recognition here, and how should I go about it?
   (A) Continue the efforts for recognition here. Let the activities be towards a service to thy fellow man in the field of thy choice, whether with those in authority or those that would aid in thine efforts; and ye shall find that as there is the word of self - not by mere rote but by thy activity, by thy own association; not only with those in authority but those that ye serve - it will make for those returns not only as commensurate with the efforts that ye have and do put forth, but shall bring forth forty, yea sixty and a hundred fold for thy labor - IF it is given in love!
10. (Q) I have had the blues many times and have been wondering if it might be a natural circumstance due to general conditions or if it could partially be caused by a physical condition. Please explain.
    (A) As one allows self to be overcome by those things that oppress or depress, as one gets more and more of the FEELINGS of unappreciation on the part of others, these are as the crushing of one's own egotism in the MENTAL phase or portion of the experience of an entity. As one finds such expressions become more and more a portion of the material or physical self, there is produced then a physical reaction. Not as other than a mental aptitude as respecting same; but when these conditions approach thee (for all are as upon the wheel of life), look rather within than without. And in thy activity give praise to someone, even though it be a feeble effort on the part of such an one. Find those that are also as thyself bemuddled by the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of man's voice, the inexpressionness of man's association and activity. Give not away to the satisfying of thine own indulgences and say, "What's the use; no one cares!" If thou dost not care for thyself, who may care for thee?
    Then, let such experiences be rather those periods when ye would in some other's life, not thine own, make it a period of joy. And ye will find that such will pass away, even as the morning dew when the light of truth and justice and mercy shines out upon those things; for they shall become as high points of thine own experience and not that of despondency, despair or the blues. Do not mistake the blues for a grouch, and a grouch for the blues. But let thy yeas be yea and thy nays be nay with thy REAL inner self. And look to that from within. For He, thy God, thy better self, thy inner man, thy Christ Consciousness, thine own soul, hath promised to meet thee there - and to guide thee in all things that will make for making thine experience in the earth not only a joyous one but more and more worthwhile for those that thou dost contact day by day. And thy light, thy word, shall SHINE - if ye will but enter in!
11. (Q) Have I the proper mental and physical qualifications to succeed as an executive?
    (A) You have the mental and physical qualifications to succeed, if ye will but look within. Who is the greater executive than thy God? Who may guide thee aright greater than He? What thou lackest He may add to thee, if ye seek in that manner. For His promise has been, "If ye will be my children, I will be thy God, and I will raise thee up that none shall say aught against thee, and those that would hurt or make thee afraid shall become as naught." STAND with thy loins girded about with the TRUTH, putting on the armor of God; and thou shalt be strong in thy might!
12. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See 802-1 on 1/28/35 and subsequent correspondence.

REPORTS

1. 12/35 He sent Mr. Cayce a Christmas Card.
2. 2/24/37 Mailing to his old business address was returned with the notation that he had joined a firm in Chicago.
3. See subsequent notations under 802-1 Reports.

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