Edgar Cayce Readings, 900-104

(Q) Early Friday Morning, August 4, 1925, in Deal. I was in a department store working at the bottom as a youngster. I was in conversation with some group and one man in particular seemed my superior. Then a period seemed to pass, during which events occurred to bring me out of the store, raise me in position, and I saw myself again returned to the store, this time merely as a visitor to look over the field of my old endeavors. I walked through various departments, through the old familiar stocks, saw old familiar faces. I got to the department where my old boss was. He now had my job and I seemed free of his jurisdiction. "Hello!" I called to him. "Hello Kid," he answered. I felt more than a kid and didn't like that much, so looked away from him up to the wax figures used as show pieces. I knew them well. I used to fix them and dress them. Then I entered the elevator, which started DOWN. Suddenly it dropped and I grew panicky. Another man said: "Look, you are running the elevator!" I became conscious that behind me, against which I was leaning was the elevator control. I reached behind to grab it and tried to stop the falling car, with only partial success. The other man rushed to my aid, grasped the control and brought the car to a stop just before it struck bottom. Then he brought it up to the first floor. When I emerged I seemed to be visiting my uncles in their store in ..., Indiana, and the time seemed the present. As I entered I thought of my sick uncle [91] and a face appeared before me ghastly white with black shining eyes. I saw only a face and not one I recognized. It was like someone that didn't belong coming in, interfering. It frightened and horrified me. (What was it?) It seemed I entered by the freight elevator, into where the grocery used to be, for the store was as it used to be when I visited here with my mother as a boy. ... was my mother's home and my uncle still lives there in spite of my grandmother's death, but the store is now all changed around. As I entered, I saw again familiar faces and I called out: "Hello everybody." They were busy at their own work, but Jean Wolf saw me, shook hands and greeted me. Then I again went through the various departments and greeted people, especially Bessie Carmody, who had a customer but was very glad to see me, having known me since a boy. I was so glad to see her. I greeted my Uncle [91] and noticed he looked badly, from ill health. I told him of our success - [137] and mine in business. Then I went up to my uncle's home, where my grandmother too used to live while alive, and behold my father was there living with my mother. "You see," I reasoned to myself, "If Dad hadn't married, Ma, he wouldn't be able to live with her in Grandma's house." As I entered, I noticed my Father broken in health as he was in his last illness before he died. I was so happy to see him and I stooped over the sick bed, put my arm about him and kissed him. He asked me about myself and eagerly I told him: "Dad, [137] has struck it rich. He has made a killing." Then I gave him the figures of money [137] and I have made since our 3 months in business. My father asked my mother what train out we were going to make and she said the 3:40 and my father seemed displeased. "What train are you going to make, [900]?" he asked. "We have to make the limited that leaves ... at 3:40," I said, "so we'll have to make the 2:34 out of here." Then Ma, [137] and I were playing ball. I thought of my father inside sick. "We have to make that 2:34 train," I remarked. My mother was pitching, [137] catching, and I was at bat. We continued to play although train time drew near, which worried me. "We must make that train," I said, but we continued to play. "How is Dad?" I asked my mother. "What did he say of our business?" "He talked," my mother replied. He said, "I am going to take a policy out for [900] tonight." I thought of my father's poor health and of his inability to secure any insurance policy. "He must be irrational," I remarked. The train pulled into the station - I saw the huge engine steam along the tracks. "That's the 2:34," I told them, but we continued to play ball, although I worried about making the train.
(A) In all of this, we find the entity having reviewed, as it were, the developments of the body as would be depicted by the action, physically, of same, with the various relations, positions, stations, times, as it were, of the various changes as have and do, and have already, and will occur again in this mental development as is pictured in the physical action of the life. This, as we see, brought up to the position wherein the entrance of the forces as applied through the spiritual development as attained through spiritual guide. In the various places we find those different elements entering. As is seen first, the beginning; the store, the manner of approach, the recognizing upon return, after having given thought in a different field, the recognition of the various conditions as presented by the conditions in or through individuals, through those different spheres of the advancement that the body reached. In retrospection, then, there comes the classification of the knowledge as is necessary for the farther development in the co-relating [correlating] of physical forces with a spiritual interpretation of the mental developments of the body.
As is seen upon the elevator, that wherein those others may be depending upon the action, the body itself, [900], as the director of the channels in which body, mind, soul and being will be directed, though the fear at times of the conditions as enter in with same, yet we see how same is illustrated and given to the body.
Again, when we see the face appear, that of some sinister condition that brings fear to the mental forces of the body, to the whole physical being, these, as we see, give the intimations, the conditions, as is shown when fear enters the body, from what has been said, what may be said, what could be said, by others as regarding the actions, whether of mental, whether of physical, whether of moral, whether of the spiritual forces as would be exemplified through the actions of the body.
As that reached in the various spheres, we find of the various members of the family, the loved ones, a condition through which the mentalities of the body pass, recognizing the various conditions as exist in the physical forces, these being representations of mental conditions as actions upon the body in its mental development, see? Then, as we come to the recognition of the condition of the father, we find this brings again that full interpretation of the oneness of all forces as are manifest in spiritual laws, for to this one is carried not only the financial successes, the social successes, the moral successes, the advancement in every sphere, and the insurance of the conditions for the use of the entity is as giving that assurance of the recognition of the application of [900] to those elements wherein becomes well pleasing to the individual itself, all then presented in emblematical form. Showing in the ball again the perfect sphere, as it were, tossed to and fro among those in whom there are, as it were, considering of these very conditions that have brought about such developments. This then, of the train, with its number, with its time, with the variations of the difference, shows of the conditions that are to be presented soon through such stocks that will bring some worry, some troubles, to the body, yet receive in that assurance the truths as are gained through the knowledge as is acquired in these visions.

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