This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 3rd day of January, 1925, in accordance with request made by [900].

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

TEXT

1. GC: Now you will have before you the body of [900], the enquiring mind of this body, and his hunger for knowledge. You will also have questions on subject matter. You will answer these questions as I ask them.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, with the enquiring mind, and the desire for knowledge, with questions on subject matter, [900].
3. (Q) As given in readings of body, [900], gods have granted him, or brought him to that point where he may attain knowledge. What is meant by gods?
   (A) In this manner and form are gods meant here: In the attaining of development, through the mental, the soul forces, in the earth's plane, there has been set bounds about every force as manifested in the material, the mental, the soul, the spiritual planes. These bounds are the gods, or guards, of such attainment, and conditions, and meant as such in this condition.
4. (Q) It has also been given in these readings that Jesus lived a man and died a man. It has also been given that God so loved the world as to give His only begotten Son to act as an example, in the flesh, to man. Explain these things to us. How may we regard the truth regarding Jesus in relation to the Jewish and Christian religions, and to all the other religions of the world?
   (A) In that the man, Jesus, became the ensample of the flesh, manifest in the world, and the will one with the Father, he became the first to manifest same in the material world. Thus, from man's viewpoint, becoming the only, the first, the begotten of the Father, and the ensample to the world, whether Jew, Gentile, or of any other religious forces. In this we find the true advocate with the Father, in that He, as man, manifest in the flesh the ability of the flesh to make fleshly desires one with the will of the spirit. For God is spirit, and they who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth, just as Jesus manifested in the flesh, and able to partake of the divine, for making all laws susceptible to the mandates. For the will was one with the Father, and in this we find He takes on all law, and a law unto Himself. For with the compliance, of even an earthly or material law, such an person IS the law. And in that Jesus lived as man, and died as man, and in that became the ensample to all who WOULD approach the Throne of God.
   As we see in all the religions of the world, we find all approaching those conditions where man may become as the law in his connection with the divine, the supreme, the oneness, of the world's manifestation. In Jesus we find the answer.
5. (Q) It has been given that the soul is the spiritual force that animates or gives life to the body. What is spirit? What is spiritual force? Is it corporeal or incorporeal? Where may we find the soul force in the body - in the brain, nerve centers or where?
   (A) There is a vast deal of difference between spiritual and soul forces, for, as given, each force there has been set guards or bounds. Spirit forces are the animation of ALL LIFE giving life-producing forces in animate or inanimate forces. Spiritual elements become corporeal when we speak of the spiritual body in a spiritual entity; then composed of spirit, soul and the superconsciousness.
   In the soul forces, and its dwelling in man, we find the animation, the spiritual element, the soul that developing element, and contained in the brain, in the nerve, in the centers of the whole system. As to the specific centers, nearer those centers of the sensory system, physically speaking.
   In the conditions, then, we find when soul and spirit take flight from the animate forces of an human, we find the deadening of all the centers of the sensory system, with the vitality of the solar plexus system, with the gland of the medulla oblongata, these then controlling the forces, and the life becomes extinct, with soul and spirit, with the super-conscious forces, gone.
   Then, we have as this:
   Spiritual element, the vitality, produces the motive forces of the entity, whether physical or spiritual. Spiritual forces being the life, the reproductive principle; the soul the development principle. As we have manifested, or illustrated, in the physical body in nerve tissue: There becomes that principle of the nerve action and the nerve in action. That is, with the expression of some condition bringing distress in the body, the active principle is the spirit. The nerve is the soul, for development.
6. (Q) What happens to the conscious mind forces and physical forces at death?
   (A) The conscious mind forces either are in the soul's development, and in the superconsciousness, or left with that portion of material forces which goes to the reclaiming, or remoulding, of physical bodies, for indwelling of spiritual entities.
7. (Q) Explain universal forces. Are they forces -
   (A) (Mr. Cayce, breaking in:) In this, we find that great indwelling of that force as is given in the bounds about all development, whether mental, soul, or spiritual conditions; the universal being that element through which all becomes manifest in a material world, or a spiritual world. As would be illustrated in the prism separating the elements of light, and showing the active principle of given light or heat in its action, by deflection from the given law, the universal forces are as such. These, we see, become manifest in the material world as the mentality of man develops and gains the knowledge of the laws of the universe, and as man in his mentality gains the knowledge of that law, the deflections become the manifestations of universal laws, and force, manifested through the material world. All such laws, as man develops, will come to the use and benefit of man, there being many illustrations in the present age.
   The greater we find in the life of Jesus, who only used the universal law, and in the deflection of same, through the life lived, made same manifest in the world, in the last overcoming even the disintegration of the spirit and soul from the physical or corporeal body, and able to force all law to become subjugated to the body, or, as we see, manifest in the electrical forces as used by man. This becoming only an atom in motion, and as the atomic force gathers this, producing such vibration as to create heat, light, and of the various natures, by the kind, class or nature of resistance met in its passage in the cycle given, reducing, or raising the velocity, or better by the class of atomic force it vibrates, either with or against.
   These are ensamples of portions of universal forces.
8. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. 12/29/24 Mr. [900]'s letter: "So please take the reading fully [900-17] and as outlined [See 900-15 and 900-16] and also return the questions to me as only in that way may I gain a coherent understanding of your answers."

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