GC: You will have before you the entity known as [
1135]
present in this room, his interest in psychical research and
connection with Duke University of Durham, N.C., and the
psychical research being conducted there under the direction
of J. B. Rhine. You will also consider the psychic work of
Edgar Cayce, as presented through the Ass'n for Research &
Enlightenment, Inc. Taking into consideration the intent and
purposes of the individuals concerned, you will advise us
regarding the establishment of such relationships with Duke
through [
1135] as will be mutually beneficial in studying and
understanding the laws governing psychic forces. You will
answer the questions submitted.
EC: Yes, we have the entity, those interests in research in
psychic phenomena, [
1135]; also the work contemplated and
done by Duke University under the direction of J. B. Rhine,
the work of Edgar Cayce, the Ass'n for Research &
Enlightenment.
In considering the VARIOUS phases of research, we find there
are some conflicting influences in many directions; yet these
should be coordinated in such a way and manner as to be
helpful to those that would seek through the advancement or
development of their own souls, their own ability for the
manifesting of the spiritual laws in a material world.
Then, to consider these from their varied angles, first - as
we find:
As we have indicated, the development of the innate or soul
forces of [
1135] is such that there is the INNATE desire, the
gradual growth of a seeking for that something which
expresses or manifests itself in the varied phases of
phenomena that have been classified under that called
psychic research.
As to each phase of this being properly classified, few may
be able as this entity to give their proper classifications.
For in those developments through the activities in the
material world, we find the entity is at a period that it
finds itself in a position of not only classifying but aiding
in establishing in the activities of individuals the VARIED
classified physical or material activities. As in those that
pertain to the influences of a destructive force bringing
about in the experience of individuals that making for the
destruction of those of the Atlantean period or age.
Then with the correlating of those truths as indicated
through the activities of Ra-Ta, Saneid, Og, there began -
with the activities of the entity as to the teachings then,
in those experiences - the applications in the experiences of
individuals; though, to be sure, under quite a different
environment from that in which the entity may find self in
its activities in the present.
Yet the very activity brings in the present that SEEKING
THROUGH self OF the expressions that WERE builded in the SOUL
of the entity during those experiences.
True, in the next period (that finds expressions in an
activity of the entity), these were turned into those periods
of self-indulgence. For they, as indicated, were basically
upon PHENOMENA rather than the TRUTH that PRESENTED - or
presents or gives - the channel FOR the ACTIVITY of same.
Yet in the seeking for that being manifested in the healing
of the physical forces of individuals, there was brought into
the experience of the entity a change in the attitude and in
the application of self respecting those forces or influences
that ARE ACTIVATIVE in the experiences of individuals.
Then, in making application of that which is innate within
the experience of the entity in the present:
That it, the activity in the present, again becomes
associated with those influences that were a portion of the
EXPERIENCE of this entity in those periods of manifestation
should in its very nature make for not ONLY the NECESSITY of
the verification of the principles, the purposes, the basis,
the SOURCE, but the very influence that may guide or direct
what may become manifested or may be given to others to aid
in THEIR activity in THEMSELVES becoming expressive in such
manifestations. This becomes apparent.
How, then, may this be done?
First, within self FIND that which answers to that something
within self that is continually seeking for that which has
been given in the expression, "a house not made with hands"
but ETERNAL in the experience of those that seek to find the
way to that source from which they as SOULS (not as
individuals, or PERSONALITIES rather), that home, that abode.
When this has been determined within self, then proceed. And
remember that law as has been given, "Thy spirit, thy soul,
will bear witness WITH My Spirit, whether ye be the sons of
God or not." Or, "my spirit" (in this application thy
spirit), beareth witness with that source, that influence
that directs, that makes for the giving of expressions to
individuals that applied within their own experience brings
them closer to that which is the expression of those forces
that are without law, but eternal in the law of love; that
is:
That seeth no evil, that thinketh not of itself, that laudeth
not itself, but rather seeks to be a channel through which
the Father, the Son, the Spirit may find expression to become
the blessings that have been promised to the sons of men.
These, then, save they be answered from within, are and must
remain WITHOUT the veil. [See
262-94, Par. 14-A.]
As to those seekings and those activities of J. B. Rhine, in
his relationships that seek for the preparing of men and
women that they may in this material world become as channels
through which the world may be a better place for their
having given of themselves in the expressions through the
earth:
Unless these be the purposes, unless these be the basis of
the desires of this entity, then leave them alone!
For hath it not been given that he that hath seen the way,
that hath KNOWN there IS a way unto the source of Creative
Forces, and then turns away, is (the soul) in a worse state
than before?
For did He not proclaim, "He that would offend ONE of these,
my children, better that a millstone were hanged about his
neck and he cast into the depths of the sea"?
There is, then, rather this:
Know that the seeking, the developing of individuals in the
expression of their super-selves in their activity must be
for CREATIVE forces and not (as THIS entity now called [
1135]
has seen, has KNOWN in its INNER self) for
self-aggrandizement, self-exaltation, self-indulgence; for
if it is, then the WAY of that soul is made all the more in
a state of bewilderment - without a cause.
Hence there be many phases, many characters of the
manifestation of psychic forces in the material world.
There are those influences from without the veil that seek -
seek - that they may find an expression, that they may still
be a portion of this evolution in the earth, not considering
their present estate. And these bring turmoil, strife.
Only those, then, that have named the Name and have put ON
that love, that seek expression through a channel that IS to
the GLORY of the Father, ARE worthy of same.
By what judgement shall these be known?
What saith He? "By their fruits ye shall know them." For,
"Ye do not gather figs from thistles."
So in the study, in the research that may be made, know FIRST
that their individual developments are based upon the eternal
truth, "I AM THAT I AM," and may be known to those that seek
to know "My Face." And, "Though ye be afar, when ye call I
will hear."
We are through for the present.
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BACKGROUND
See
1135-1, his Life Reading, on
3/23/36.
See [
5747] series which Dr. [
1135] was given to read.
REPORTS
3/27/36 See
1135-3.
Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993, 1994, 1995 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation