This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Cambridge Hotel, Apt. 103, 60 West 68th Street, New York City, New York, on this 16th day of January, 1925, in accordance with request made by [900].

Present: Edgar Cayce; [900], Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. Edgar Cayce, Mrs. Freda Blumenthal, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Blumenthal, Dr. Berger, Mr. Biddlecome.

TEXT

1. [900]: Now you have before you the book on subject matter, written by the body, Edgar Cayce, in the subconscious condition, in the hand of [900], present in this room. You will also have before you the outline of this book, written by the body, [900], also in the body, [900]'s hand, present in this room. You will answer questions, so as to clarify the book on subject matter [3744] to the mind of [900].
2. EC: Yes, we have the subject matter here, as transcribed and written. Also the explanation on subject matter as written by the body, [900]. We have in this subject matter many conditions that may be clarified by questions. Ready for questions.
3. (Q) Explain "Mind is the factor that is in direct opposition to will."
   (A) We have many phases of mind. We have the mind of the spirit consciousness, of the physical sub-conscious, or soul. We have the mind of the physical body, through which any or all of these may manifest. The will [is] that active principle against which such manifestations respond. Hence [it is in] direct opposition to mind action. This, we find then, refers to the condition in the material world, will, see? The will in the spiritual plane, or spirit consciousness (not spirit entity) being the creation of that manifested in the earth plane. Hence the different conditions in will's manifesting and in how will [is in] opposition to the mind forces.
4. (Q) Explain "Mind is a factor as senses are of the mind, and as the soul and spirit are factors of the entity, one in all, all in one."
   (A) As has been given. These conditions, mind of the soul, mind of the physical body, mind of the spiritual entity, are separated, that one may gain the knowledge of its action. As we have then the mind of the spiritual entity, that mind wherein the entity (spiritual entity [we are] speaking of) manifests in the spiritual plane, the mind in the physical body the subconscious, the conscious, through which the entity manifests in the physical world, one in all, all in one. In one in the spiritual mind, acted upon by their attributes, principally will, for it is the factor in the physical world, in the spiritual world, for the action being that through which the manifestations of any factor known. As we would have in this: Knowledge comes through the senses in the physical body to the conscious mind. The subconscious has the storing of the knowledge of given conditions; when the consciousness receives through the sense that knowledge, the will [is] the action against the incentives set forth.
5. (Q) Explain how the mind serrogates [segregates?], correlates, or divides the impressions to the portion needed to develop the entity, or physical force, toward the spark or infinite force, giving the life force to the body.
   (A) In this, again we have the manifestations of physical conditions that may be manifest in a physical body, and conditions that may be manifest in the spiritual body. As we have in correlation of conditions that assist in the building, the developing, in the physical body, the entity, the inmost being, the expectancy of the physical body must be awakened before the body, through its tissue, its vital forces, can emanate the necessary building, or eliminating forces, of the physical body, to rebuild or develop properly. Hence the cause of death in physical world. The lack of the consciousness of the indwelling spiritual force in the spiritual entity in physical body. The breaking, the division, in the portions. Hence the disintegration of physical to the birth in the spiritual. As we have again in the physical the correlation of those elements necessary for the setting in motion of those vibrations to create the offspring, the developing begins with the separation of those elements in the physical body to create physical body, born into physical world. The knowledge of the spiritual forces begins the development through the awakening of the spiritual forces in the entity. Hence the birth into the spiritual world. Hence the necessity of the rebirth in and through such conditions, until the whole [is] made in the will of the Creator.
6. (Q) Explain what the divide between the soul and spiritual forces is? How manifest, and how we may study self to gain the approach to that divide.
   (A) This [is] of the spiritual entity in its entirety. The super-conscious [is] the divide, that one-ness lying between the soul and the spirit force, within the spiritual entity. Not of earth forces at all, only awakened with the spiritual indwelling and acquired individually.
7. (Q) How may the individual think, study, and act to acquire this awakening?
   (A) Study to show thyself approved unto Him, rightly dividing the words of truth, keeping self unspotted from the world, avoiding the appearance of evil, for as is given, those who would seek God must believe that He IS, and a rewarder of those who would seek Him. That is, that the Creator has that One-ness with the individual to make that One-ness with Him. As is given in the conditions as is manifest through those who would seek the One-ness with God, for only those who have approached sufficient to make the mind of the physical, the mind of the soul, the mind of the spiritual, One with Him, may understand or gather that necessary to approach that understanding.
8. (Q) Explain, "the only real life being that which in the material or physical plane is called psychic."
   (A) This we find has been given in explanation of psychic.
9. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. See 900-19, 20 and 21 follow-up on [3744] series re Psychic Phenomena Through the Subliminal.

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