This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 6th day of July, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [826], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [826], L. B. and Hugh Lynn Cayce.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those experiences of the entity's sojourn in the earth, and those as related to the activities of the entity in the present.
2. In the experience as Pluenon, we find the entrance of the entity in the earth then was in the Grecian reaction; entering at or near that period which would be termed in the present as 16 B.C., in those environs or sojourns of Carthage - just outside or near Athens.
3. And the activities were among the Athenians in the development of the mental experience during the sojourn.
4. The relations then were a family of three children, the entity being the second one.
5. As to the names of the parentage, they were of those people who made for the associations with the rulers and yet with those that tended toward rather what would be called the commercial or farming portion.
6. The parentage were of no mean estate, though those in the former portions of experience had been made freemen through the giving of themselves in service for the country.
7. The entity then made for advancements, as we have indicated, throughout that sojourn; through the ministering to the economic needs of the countries, also aiding later in the coalition of the activities of many of those smaller countries or kingdoms or houses or groups in the period with the Romans' activities in the Palestine, and in the Cretan land, in Cyrene, in portions of Persia, extending as far as Phoenicia (Palaetyrus) [Early name for Tyre, and Sidon] in Egypt and to the edges of what is now even the Moroccan governments.
8. The activities of the entity were in bringing to the attention of those in authority the activities of the various groups.
9. Hence the writing, the abilities to record facts as historical data making for the changes and for the necessities - even in those various spheres of activity - of meeting the needs towards keeping the purpose of those who had been or were subdued under the various activities of extending the Grecians' forces and the Romans' influence. Such correlations during the experience brought for the entity the advancement throughout its sojourn. And little were the aggrandizements of selfish interests as to bring retardments in the soul or spiritual development of the entity.
10. Hence, as we find, while the entity during the sojourn was not given power in a political way and manner, as it may be seen by drawing of comparisons in the present, those who are the counsellors by and through the gathering of statistical data or data of historical natures as respecting same, are in fact the powers behind those of authority.
11. Hence the entity in its sojourn made for the keeping of peace, bringing to the various groups then those experiences and necessary influences for the activities of the groups. And in relation to same those things that dealt with law and order in the economics of the various groups; those things that dealt with the activity or the influences of the associations of groups in sports - as would be called in the present, or the artistic reaction, or the exchange in the architectural reactions to meet the needs in the various sections and characters of the groups.
12. For it was at that time, as we find, that the entity (with two or three others of a like tendency) aided in making for those things pertaining to the pretentious edifices among the more humble peoples; and the exchange of ideas between the proletariats of the various sections.
13. Hence such giving of self has made, does and did make for a soul development throughout the experience. Yet in the latter portion, because there were those appearances as of unappreciativeness from those in authority for the great period of the entity's activities, for the active services of the entity in these directions, the entity - as it were - fell into that of sullenness. This brought for the last days, while not a period of loss in SOUL development, rather that which would and did make for the entity in the next sojourn being rather "hard-boiled," according to the common parlance in the present.
14. But the entity's activities of service ran from a period when the entity was twenty-two until it was eighty-two - when it withdrew from direct activity.
15. As to the activities of such a sojourn in the present experience, we find that the greater activity may be had by the entity in those conditions that deal with the LIFE-giving forces in the experiences of individuals; that would make for the presenting of same to the general public, either through the writings or the speakings.
16. For, as we have indicated, that work pertaining to what has been well said to be the 'staff of life' in the sojourns of individuals as individuals in the earth plane - or a book "WHEAT" - should be the CROWNING effort of the entity; in its giving to the general public or to its peoples in many lands that which will show how that as there are added to the body-physical the elements of the soil in their proper ratio, these bring to the balanced mental and physical reactions the necessary forces for keeping the moral, the mental, the soul, the spiritual balance in the individual. [12/62 Nat'l Health Federation Bul., reprinted from Drug Trade News 10/01/62, see briefed in 5/63 A.R.E. Bul. in re "Wheat-Derived Chemicals Said to Accelerate Wound Healing" etc.] And thus this is given out to the groups, to the masses in THEIR reaction.
17. For as may be seen from the experience of the entity in that sojourn, in Greece, Persia, Palestine or Judea, the entity supplied the necessary data for keeping peace in a religious manner, in a political manner, in an economic and social manner. Yet those in authority, gormandizing their bodies upon those things that made for the firing of the influences or forces within the natural or physical body, forgot what had been the promptings that had brought to their own land, their own peoples, the great powers that made for the ruling forces in that portion of the world in that experience.
18. Along these lines, then, WRITE; and on those kindred subjects that deal with the influence which has been had from the agricultural standpoint not only as it is understood in the present, but what it has meant and does mean for the peoples of all nations, all races even; as to how their diet may fire and does fire those portions within the body as to set the very influences that bring destructive conditions in the experience of the body.
19. In this vein and in this line may there be much given that will be of help, of hope; creating not an outline of a menu of this or that, not an outline showing that there should be only this or that! For as is generally known and seen, in each land there is that prepared - as it were - by nature or the creative forces - to make for the body-development of those within that particular environ. And in how many lands is WHEAT? It is the greater portion, and should be the greater portion of that which is to supply not only body-heat but body-development for an equal balance in the mental influences upon the physical forces of man in his activity; rather than the fleshpots or the brews that may be made by outside influences or combinations that destroy much!
20. Then, in these may the entity build back to itself and open for its own entity's fixation in its activity the experiences through which the entity passed in that sojourn.
21. Ready for questions.
22. (Q) Should the book written by me and present in this room be published as one volume, or should the section relating to economics be published separately?
    (A) As we find, be best published separately.
23. (Q) Should the section relating to diet or to sex relationship and birth control be published separately?
    (A) Separately.
24. (Q) What should the book or books be called? (a) A Timely Warning!
25. (Q) Should the chapter relating to sex relationship be published with the rest of the book?
    (A) May be published as in accord one to another, but should be published separately; as a series or as a holding together of the idea which is carried throughout, see?
26. (Q) Should that chapter be published at all?
    (A) Well, ALL will be severely criticized in some directions; but when this is edited, as we find, it will be required that this be rewritten only.
27. (Q) Is there anything in the book which is destructive rather than constructive?
    (A) Some may be misinterpreted, but - as we find, as a whole, and with the changes that would naturally come - it would be constructive throughout.
28. (Q) Should it be advertised, and if so in what manner?
    (A) This, as we find, depends upon the manner in which it is presented to the public. If it is through such a publication as we have suggested, in MacMillan or in Bogart's [?] [Bowkers?] or Schuster's [Simon & Schuster, Inc.], we find that it will be advertised in their regular way and manner. But if it is published by self as a series for those activities that are in the affairs of the public at the present, then it should be advertised in the various sections as reviews upon same by the various activities in the magazine sections of the various newspapers in which such are carried on. As in The Times, The Record, The Inquirer. The Times, of course, is in New York; The Record in Boston; The Inquirer in 'Frisco.
29. (Q) Can you explain in detail what is wrong with the sex actions and sex thoughts of the people of this country?
    (A) Well, this would require quite a considerable 'at length!' We would give this rather as an individual subject, than combined with the questions here. We will give this later. [See 5747-3, Par. 11-A.]
30. (Q) Are there any sex practices which should be abolished or others which should be substituted?
    (A) These will be covered in those things as may be presented later.
31. (Q) Which section of the book should be called "A Timely Warning?"
    (A) The first section.
32. (Q) What should the economic section be called?
    (A) Well, all of this would come under the same heading, you see; the timely warning as would be presented under the various sections and sub-headed as to that upon which the greater reference is made, see?
33. (Q) Did I personally know Christ in my Grecian sojourn?
    (A) Only as a PASSING, during the making up of the associations of the entity with the authorities in the Sanhedrin; then not as a PERSONAL acquaintance, but among those who saw and heard. The greater study of those conditions in that experience arose from the entity's associations with Joseph of Arimathea and (of course, coming from the same portion of the land as the entity, you see) Nicodemus.
34. (Q) How old did I live to be in that sojourn?
    (A) Eighty-seven. Stopped work at eighty-two. Began work at twenty-two; had sixty years of active service; one or two years of grumbling.
35. (Q) How can the various sections of the book be called the same name and still be published in different volumes?
    (A) These would be as a series, you see; as a series in its various sections, and may be used all in one or as the various sections that would make the appeal to various groups, see? This makes for, then, the GREATER activity or HELPFULNESS in or to the greater number of peoples.
    We are through for the present.
    We would give much as concerning that of sex and sex relationships. For these should come at this time, as we have indicated through these channels, AS a timely warning; as to how sex is a contributory cause to the delinquency in the teen and younger ages of the public in general. [See 5747-3 which EC gave that afternoon.]
36. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See 826-4 on 4/25/35.

REPORTS

1. 7/10/35 See 826-6 in re sex practices, etc.

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