Edgar Cayce Readings, 971-1

(Body and enquiring mind, who seeks information, advice and guidance as to her mental and material affairs. You will answer the questions she has submitted, as I ask them:)

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EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [971].
Ready for questions.
(Q) Regarding my filling station, and the contract which expires Aug. 25th, should I renew lease with present manager?
(A) As we find, if there is a TERM lease of at least a year to two years and a half, then we would lease to the present manager. If there are the requirements from present manager that there be other improvements, or that there be a short term lease, this then would not be advisable.
(Q) If so, at same price?
(A) At same price.
(Q) If not, what should I do; considering that the present manager has leased the station next to mine?
(A) As indicated, if there is the ability to lease for two years, or two years and six months, then lease to the present manager. If he only wants a short lease, then make those associations or connections through the regular channels of offering same in the manner in which such conditions are handled, for someone else.
(Q) If I should not renew the lease, should I try to rent the property for another purpose?
(A) Not for another purpose, for it would then require the expenditure of such sums as to make it impractical.
(Q) Should I renew contract with the Pure Oil Co. to furnish gas?
(A) As it has proven satisfactory in some respects and unsatisfactory in others, a change would be worth considering. But, as we find, if this is handled in a practical manner, making it for definite terms - as there are the changes in price, as there are the changes in the supplies in one way and another, well that all these be taken into consideration. And, as we find, these will be made satisfactory.
(Q) Should I do anything now regarding my storage plant deal, in order to come out ahead?
(A) This has not been handled, as we find, in a satisfactory manner. The least the body can do is to "get from under" with as little loss as possible. For, as has been experienced in this as in others by the entity, unless conditions are made other than merely verbal they are not often satisfactory. However, keep in consideration that a verbal agreement in the presence of witnesses in Ohio is as valid as a written agreement, or more so! But let the understanding be, in ANY case, such that there will be as little loss as possible in connection with the storage plant. This will be the most satisfactory managing or handling of this situation.
(Q) Should I interest myself in my friend's patent for headlights on cars to make night driving safe?
(A) We do not find this to be as practical a thing as it may appear at first. If there is the PROPER KIND of an organization for the distribution of such a product, this can be made - of course - to be worth while from the financial angle. But there are SO MANY of those that have been attempted, and there are some troubles in infringements that are used in these connections. So, unless there is the desire or expectancy of spending a great deal of money to get an adequate return, we would not advise so.
(Q) How could we interest someone with money to take it up, since the patent has been accepted at Washington?
(A) It may have been accepted, but there are some other troubles that will arise as to its distribution and manufacture.
Unless there is the desire to expend large quantities of money, we do not find it advisable to carry on with same.
(Q) Considering I have two children to educate, please advise me what is best to do for everyone?
(A) As there has been considerable disturbance through the anxieties that have been created by the attempts of the body to handle various connections in a commercial way and manner, and at the same time trying to rely upon the activities day by day, for the supplying of much - or some, at least - of the moneys expended here and there, we find that it would be well for the entity to curtail these expansions; unless these are done more in a manner in which there is an associate in whom the entity and body may find explicit confidence. Not as a body working FOR, but a body working WITH the entity in those activities in which the entity has engaged itself.
There has been the consideration also, on the part of the entity, as has been indicated, for the re-wedding. This, as we find, would be to the greater advantage for all concerned; especially in the light of that which has been indicated is lacking in the satisfactory arrangements of the entity in the present.
(Q) Regarding the two love affairs involved, please tell me what is best.
(A) That the entity may find; not by just listening to what either of the men say. But first analyze in an equitable manner the whole situation; not considering self, but rather the promptings of the INNER consciousness. Then pray over same. Take the Creative Forces, God, into partnership with thee. And let the answer then come from within.
If there is the consideration from the material or the financial angle alone, or for self in this respect, such relations cannot help but bring those things that do rust and canker; not wearing well as the changes come about.
Approach, then, from the spiritual angle; and, as we would find, it would bring the more satisfactory conditions into the experiences of all concerned.
(Q) How can I deal with the one which has cost me so much?
(A) Demand that there be redress made for that which has been expended in such a manner to make self and dependents safe, should there become any activity on the part of the one so entrusted.
(Q) How can I deal with the one which is such a puzzle to me?
(A) As indicated; if either are approached on the purely material basis they must bring many a headache.
(Q) Do you see that it is possible for me to straighten out this tangled affair?
(A) ALL things are possible with God. Though it may bring some heartaches, though there are already many regrets, begin with the SPIRITUAL activity. Do not expect results in one day, nor one week. Individuals do not sow one day and reap the next. They reap what they have sown in the periods when THAT sown has come to fruitage. For what ye sow, so shall ye reap. Indiscretions, and the sentiments that are based wholly upon material satisfactions, must bring the tares and the weeds in the experience of the body.
Those things sown in mercy, truth, justice, will bring their rewards in the same realm, in the same coin as sown.
(Q) Do you see that I will be happy and my health improved when these conditions are smoothed out?
(A) This is dependent or contingent upon the manner of activity, the purpose, the aims, the desires of the body. Remember, God is not mocked. Remember, that thou sowest must ye reap.
If the body, mind, will turn more and more within, there will come more and more harmony.
Leave the RESULTS with thy Maker, but DO THOU RIGHT in the sight of thine own conscience; not to be seen of men nor to be considered of satisfying or gratifying any EARTHLY experience, but that the GLORY of the Father through thy gentleness, thy kindness, thy patience, thy fellowship, thy brotherly love, is the result.
These activities beget health, harmony, understanding.
DO those!
In the physical forces of the body much is to be desired, but make thyself RIGHT FIRST with thy Maker. Then may all these things be added unto thee in their order.
(Q) Should I seek a Physical Reading through these sources?
(A) In the physical, as we find, there are necessary changes. But first making thine own self, thine own conscience, RIGHT with thy Maker will cover, will correct, with straighten many a crooked path.
We are through for the present.
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7/26/35 She submitted questions.