This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 4th day of January, 1928, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [900].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. L. B. Cayce.

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1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of [900], of ... N.Y. City, and the dreams this body had on the dates which I will give you. You will give the interpretion and lesson to be gained from each of these, as I read them to you, and you will answer the questions which I will ask you regarding same.
2. EC: We have the body, the enquiring mind, [900]. This we have had here before. Dreams come through those channels as has been given. Ready for dreams.
3. (Q) Morning of Dec. 21, 1927. I heard a steady tapping sound. I recognized the increased vibratory "Whir". The tapping continued - I grew frightened and moved toward [136], but something held me, encouraging me now to gain the experience I had been studying and reading about and for which I so longed. I gained the impression (I have had it before) of many about me. Then I felt one grip my foot and my toes and give it a good pull. It was no uncertain pull either. Then I awakened and I even now can feel the impression on the big toe of the right foot that was yanked.
   (A) Here we find again those demonstrations of the action of force in the dematerialized form taking form through activity of forces in a sensuous plane in a manner sufficient to leave impressions in that plane. Here again we find an illustration of various forms of this same force. The sensuousness of hearing, the sensuousness of fright, the sensuousness of self-protection, the sensuousness of feeling, and the abilities of these feelings in their different forms taking shape in an expression such as to leave definite forms of impression upon the individual. Again we find the manifestation of reasoning or of correlation of conditions, as is not wholly susceptible to a body of purely sensuous expression. Hence we find an experience that the body consciousness may study and find in same many of the lessons as are able to be used by one interpreting or making understood to another of how forces from the ethereal plane may manifest in the physical, see? The lesson, then, is one the body mind may apply in its study of phenomena.
4. (Q) Now, in the light of my present understanding, just how is a cosmic entity able to so operate as to cause my psychic apparatus to work, thus making me feel or experience the feeling sensation?
   (A) Working through those very same sensations, or - as seen - making the mind or the soul portion of the mind conscious of the contact in the various forms; or, as may be given in another manner and studied in the light of that experienced, but not from the purely material idea: Forces in natural elements are the channels through which such entities manifest and not through unnatural means; for, remember, all force is one force, all time one time, all energy one energy, radiating in its different sphere, phases, or the modifications of the different conditions, see?
5. (Q) It happened in other manners when I have given mental suggestions in a reading and a pressure on my shoulder (this has happened more than once) told me the suggestion was received and understood. But this time many entities operated, and it correlated with phases of phenomena called materialization that is capable of demonstration through some so called mediums. How is this expected?
   (A) Or explained. Just as is given, that each - or the entities of the different planes or spheres operating through the various sensory forces give one action, yet the ability of the consciousness then aware, or the awareness of the consciousness of the various phases or forms of expression, gave the knowledge of the awareness of more than one operating in the same way and manner through different channels, bringing all into one manifestation; just as individual manifestations gave the action of many - and correct then is that as given concerning the dwelling, or indwelling, of the spirits that find one swept clean and enter and make their abode there. Read this in connection with same, see?
6. (Q) My grandmother appeared (this came prior to above and probably served as a prelude to same) and taking me by the hand led me away, saying as she did so, "Here comes the bride, here comes the bride. The bride cometh to the groom."
   (A) This, as is seen, is an interpretation - or a prelude to the interpretation of the many forces as manifest through this same channel; or to begin with the first we find as here: This prelude to the conditions following brings the entity (so acted upon) in that way of being aware of the various conditions as befall same through coming into contact with the various phases of life in this changed form, or making that same distinction of life in the etheric or cosmic plane as is understood in the material plane of the bride and bridegroom in their associations, for these become as one in their union, thus bringing again that necessary from each to make the law of progeneration active in its force. Hence we find the consciousness of the body [900] being led, as it were, to that position where the activity of such is made possible through this association of self's own individual cosmic forces with the cosmic forces, or that same energy as is to bring about creative forces in operation. Get that!
7. (Q) Meaning I take it that the groom is the one point that awaits the return of the soul to its starting point, yet developed to a self awareness of being that in substance and process from a viewpoint its own application and resultant development formed. Correct?
   (A) No. This showing rather the necessity of that development of the soul to the awareness of the ability to apply with self's own soul force those energies of the cosmic forces, that THESE combined in their efforts may bring about the various awarenesses of the physical body TO the conditions existent in life in its varied or changed forms, and as to how same may be applied in the material way and manner to the advancement of self in the fuller sense. Not abused, not dis-used - but applied IN the way that the forces of self become the at-oneness with the Universal Forces; thus the ability to apply same in the way and manner as has been shown by Him who gave, "Yet those come after me who shall do even greater things than I," for the ways are NOT past understanding - only necessary that one APPLY that knowledge gained in any direction to make self applicable to greater laws pertaining to conditions in that same direction; yet all these must be kept as one, even as is shown in the vision or in the experience that all of the forces use their own channels to bring about manifestations of one nature. Study these WELL, for these are the basic principles concerning spirit communication, or of every form of cosmic entity manifesting in material form.
8. We are through for the present.

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