This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 31st day of December, 1924, in accordance with request made by [900].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Hugh Lynn Cayce.

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the body of [900], ..., New York City, N.Y., the enquiring mind of this body and his hunger for knowledge. You will also have before you all the readings, or all the information that has come from the universal forces to the body, [900], through the body, Edgar Cayce, including information on the phenomena of life, or evolution of life, and the horoscope. You will now answer the questions, as I ask them, on all of these readings on this given information, as pertains to the body [900].
2. EC: Yes, we have the body and the conditions as surrounding same, pertaining to the information as already given, and the desire for knowledge, and the enquiring mind. Well that the body consider the injunction as has been given through the spiritual guide, pertaining to many of the questions as are to be considered, yet many of these will bring the understanding to that position wherein the body, [900], may stand in the spirit of those whom he may magnify in the present earth's plane.
3. We are ready for questions.
4. (Q) It has been given that the entity, [900], is blessed, as were others before him, with the ability to gain the knowledge of God. Tell us, please, who were those before him who were also so blessed. Name the most conspicuous of those and tell how this humble being, [900], compares with these, and how like them he may serve God on this earth's sphere.
   (A) There are many whom have been teachers in the past in earth's sphere whom this body may be compared with at the present time.
   First, we would give in these - Rdair [Ra-Ta?] - the Egyptian that gave the law as regarding the conditions of the study of the Divine, with whom he is at present associated.
   Again in that of Confucius, who gave to his peoples in his day the beginning of an understanding of the wisdom of [the] Divine. Again in that of Fliny (Pliny) (Phryne) (?), who gave in a different sphere and age and another understanding.
   Each, as we see, taking some branch or version that has found in the followers of each a different condition in the end. Not meeting all the needs of all conditions of mankind in his evolution in earth's plane.
   This body, [900], with his mental abilities, his insight into spiritual elements, and with the day and age, and with the foreknowledge, and with the age when all are seeking for the understanding, may gain that knowledge wherein others failed, he, [900], may so correlate the truths in such an manner as to make the fast approach of that Great Day of the Lord.
   There are many others. These three are given, for they represent the phases of man's mind, seeking the close relations to the Divine from purely man's viewpoint, without considering the ensample as has been set in a world where the consciousness of mental, the consciousness of soul, the consciousness of spirit, is now manifest in a material plane, through knowledge of the meek and lowly Nazarene.
   Then, the comparison is that the body, the mind, the soul, the spirit, of [900] may, with the insight as given, give to a world a closer comradeship with the Father.
5. (Q) It has been given that the development of the spirit entity of this individual, [900], has reached that point where it has achieved the blessing of this ability to gain the knowledge. Explain and give us the history of this development. Has that development always and only bee in the plane of Man? What is meant by plane of Man, as given this body in a reading?
   (A) Spirit entity and its development refers not to an earth existence or plane. The development of this spirit entity of [900] refers to its development in the spirit entity in other than an earth plane. The plane of Man refers to the soul and spirit, forming the entity in the human, physical, body in a material world. Do not confuse each development, but consider their co-relation one with the other. Each spirit and soul, the companion of an entity's soul, its spirit, that spark of the Creator, in its passage through the eons of time, or space, developments manifest in the spiritual plane and in an earthly plane. For the attributes of the physical make-up are but the test of the soul's environment, and for its awakening or its development, that it, the soul, may partake of those conditions necessary to develop into such an one as Jesus manifest in the flesh.
6. (Q) As given, this entity may, if will's forces are correctly used, have no need of further development on earth's plane. Does this mean that the entity may, if it chooses to so live, enter God's Holy of Holies when it leaves earth's plane, or does this mean that the spiritual entity of [900] is merely preparing for another higher plane of eternity, from which development towards God is to continue?
   (A) When the conditions as have been outlined and given are considered, this body, this entity, [900], will see, understand, how the present earth's plane so manifests in his self those conditions that would make it possible for him to develop in earth's plane, and so develop in the spiritual plane that the entity would prepare itself, its soul development, of such as would bring it into the realms of the righteous; will's manifestation in the earthly plane being that barrier, for, as has been given, "The spirit is willing, the flesh is weak."
   As has been given, God has not willed that ANY should be lost. Man's undoing, then, [is] within himself, by gratifying the desires, the weaknesses of the flesh.
   Then, as the development of the spiritual entity brings those environments, through which the soul and the earthly entity must pass, or may pass by the relative law of attraction, the will manifests in the earthly sphere, the soul reaching its development by and between the earthly sojourn and its spiritual entity's conditions.
7. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. 12/29/24 Mr. [900]'s letter: "So please take the reading [900-14] fully and as outlined and also return the questions to me as only in that way may I gain a coherent understanding of your answers." [See 900-15, Par. 1.]

REPORTS

1. 12/31/24 See 900-16 taken later the same day, continuing answers to Mr. [900]'s philosophical questions. See 900-16, Par. R1, for HLC's letter to Mr. [900] commenting on the information in both readings.

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