This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., on Easter Sunday, this 28th day of March, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - [1158], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [1158] and Mr. [1151], and Hugh Lynn Cayce.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [1158] and the information that has been given regarding the experience of the entity in Palestine.
2. In giving further interpretations of those records as we find in the experience of the entity, and their application in the present, it is very well, very befitting that such should come at a season or time when there were the experiences of the entity as the sister of the risen Lord; that there may be in the experience of the entity those practical experiences and practical applications.
3. For as has been intimated, each soul that has named the Name and who keeps in the Way may know, may hear, may see, may have a consciousness of that ENTITY; yea, the consciousness of being at an at-onement with Jesus, the Christ.
4. Not merely as a condition, not merely what may be termed in the universal sense as being at an at-onement in the Christ Consciousness (which is a condition, an experience, an activity), but that it may be fulfilled even as He has given in His promises; "Abide in me and I in thee, and I in the Father, that we may be One, even as I and the Father are One; that I may bring to remembrance thy remembrance from the book of thine own records ALL that has been from the foundations of the earth!"
5. Then as each soul meditates, uses, applies, consciously, His promises, and makes them its own, then indeed may it again walk and talk with Him.
6. How much more then should this mean to self? For even as He in the consciousness of the separations bade John to take her, thy mother, His mother, as his own, how much more would be that consciousness in self that the life, the self, the experience is dedicated to His at-onement with the Father in thee; that the glory as He had before the world was is His.
7. How much more may it shine in thee, that would make such an application of self? Not unto self-glory, not unto self-indulgence. These are only that thy name may be well-spoken of, or that thou might be different, or that in self there might be that even as He hath given to thy friend in the mother of John and James when He said, "That these may be upon the right or the left is not mine to give, but is prepared for those who are able, who are willing to drink of the cup even as I."
8. So as thou hast dedicated thyself, so as thou dost apply thyself in thine appreciations of the awareness being brought to thee of thy closeness in a physical or in a material sense, so may thy own inner self become more aware of His presence, His abiding presence with thee.
9. For as He hath given, "I - Behold, I - stand at the door and knock, and whosoever will open I will come in and sup with him."
10. How much more then may be those very influences and forces that may arise in thine own experiences, as ye look to him?
11. Oft, to be sure, it has come in thine own consciousness, how could, how COULD He be in heaven, in earth, in this place or that place, and be aware of an individual and at the same moment or same time be aware of that same presence in places miles, yea leagues and leagues apart?
12. There is no time, there is no space in the UNITY of the at-onement. THIS ye know, this ye oft have a consciousness of, yet not a full awareness of. But how hath He given it? "All things that were made, by Him were made. Without Him there was not anything made that was made."
13. Then in all, through all, is the permeating influence of Christ-Consciousness.
14. Ye crystallize, ye demonstrate, ye make an at-onement by thine own attunement to His conscious presence that becomes a reality in material expressions as Creative Forces can, do, and ARE in those who are of one mind, one purpose, one intent, one desire.
15. For these, though names, are influences that prevent or aid according to their application, their appreciation, in the mental forces of the individual.
16. In that particular period then, of which ye seek to know more - as to the occasions, in a physical manner, when there were the contacts with the INDIVIDUAL as a personality - that ye experienced physically:
17. As has been given, while the physical body or entity Jesus was studying in Egypt, in Persia, in India, ye came into the experience - or were born in the earth.
18. When there was the death of Joseph, He returned to thee - yea, then a lassie - as a stranger; yet there was a binding influence from those very tendernesses, those very influences as brought to bear that draw upon thine inner self.
19. Yet thine orthodox teachings (as ye would term today) held thee aloof. The first appearances then were at the burial of Joseph.
20. At those periods when there was the first preaching in Capernaum, ye again heard His words. Then with the attempts of all of those in authority, even those of thine own faith, to dispute, to do bodily harm, again there arose that cry - as ye oft asked of Mary - "How CAN such things be? How CAN he without father come into the world?"
21. It was against nature, against thine own reasoning. Yet as has been given, as has been shown, Creative Forces bring into being that as of the Father through the PURPOSES, through the intents, through the desires! Then as He hath made, He hath builded and without Him there was nothing made, does it become strange to thee that He entered into His own to become a part of same?
22. Yet this ye could not comprehend, and yet ye say ye may see a manifestation of the presence or power of God in moving, in activating, in the hearts and minds of peoples and of individuals, animate and inanimate things. Yet He came to His own and His own received Him not!
23. Then again with thine own training ye were separated far, as has been indicated; and only was there the comprehending in the last days when there was the triumphal entry, when there was the evening of the night in the Garden, and ye came to thy mother in her physical bereavement, and ye understood, ye comprehended - WHEN there was related to thee the walk to Emmaus!
24. Those were the periods. In life ye saw Him, in experience and manifestations as when He healed Peter's wife's mother, just before the rising of the rulers of the temple against Him. Then in death. Thus ye could not, ye did not comprehend.
25. How if He is Life, could He die? Why did He die? These were the burdens. WHY should He die?
26. Yet as He gave, "For this purpose came I into the world." Just as He gave, "If ye would have life, give life."
27. If ye would know Jesus, God, Be THAT, BE THAT, to thy fellow man!
28. For it has ever been and is, even in materiality, a reciprocal world. "If ye will be my people, I will be thy God." If ye would know GOOD, do Good. If ye would have life, give life. If ye would know Jesus, the Christ, then be like Him; who died for a Cause, without shame, without fault yet dying; and through that able to make what this Season represents - RESURRECTION!
29. Resurrection means what? It is reciprocal of that which has been expressed. How hath it been put again by him whom ye knew but disliked (for ye loved Peter the better)? "There is no life without death, there is no RENEWAL without the dying of the old." Dying is not blotting out, it is transition - and ye may know transition by that as comes into the experience by those very activities, that "With what measure ye mete it shall be measured to thee again." That was His life, that is thy life, that is each one's life. Then how near, how dear has grown in the hearts, in the minds of all, those who put away self that they may know Him the better?
30. HE put away self, letting it be nailed to the Cross; that the NEW, the renewing, the fulfilling, the BEING the Law, becomes the Law!
31. For it is the Law to BE the Law, and the LAW is Love! Even as He showed in all of His manifestations, in the material experiences in the earth; that ye doubted, honestly - that is in the eyes, in the heart, in the soul even of the Creator counted - even as of old - desire, honest desire (not because faults did not arise in the material world but they were meted to Abraham, even as he said) - as FAITH!
32. Faith is manifested by that evidence of things not seen, but the hope in the promises of that which is Creative in thine inner self, thine own soul, as it seeks expression, hopes for in the life, yea in the blood of the Lamb which is the Life that lights the whole world!
33. Ready for questions.
34. (Q) Was I an eye witness of any of the miracles of Jesus? If so, please designate?
    (A) As has been indicated; the Resurrection, the healing from fever. Hast thou not felt, hast thou not seen, hast thou not experienced those things from what even the world today calls fevers as the periods when He was the closer to thee? Is it strange? Is it not a reciprocal world? What ye sow, ye reap. What ye ARE, ye are by purpose of the will given thee that makes for seeking a way, yea seeking the city without foundations whose builder and maker is God, and whose manifestations of self are given. For as ye have seen, as the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit are one, so ye being one in purpose, in desire, in hope, in faith, BY thy deeds, by thy hopes, by thy longsufferings, by thy patience, by thy enduring, by thy beliefs, show what indeed ARE thy hopes, thy fears, thy desires, thy purposes, thy aims.
35. (Q) Can you give me more details of my personal contacts with Jesus?
    (A) As has just been given.
    The closest personal contacts come only at deaths. Remember, these are conditions - remember all that has just been given, and the aloofness of self (not a fault. This is not given as a fault, but there was the aloofness of self, owing to the variations in age, in the times, in the periods). But the personal contacts were at death, at deaths. The death of the father, when in thine own physical purposes there was the reasoning, "If He healed, why did He let Father die? If He is such as so many proclaim, WHY hath He been so long away? WHY does He continue to go here, there? Why do those that are in authority appear against Him?"
    These are questions then, they are questions ever. Is it not a reciprocal world?
36. (Q) Did I see Jesus after the Resurrection?
    (A) Saw Jesus upon the Mount, as did many.
37. (Q) Were my sisters-in-law, now called [...] and [...] known to me in the Palestine experience?
    (A) Known in their various spheres of activity. That one of [...] was much in the same manner of approach as self; while that one of [...] - ye oft say, too easily does she take it on faith, too easily may others impress without purpose. Yet then they were close as friends. Or how did He say? "There is a friend that is closer than a brother."
38. (Q) Are the children who were born to the entity in this Palestine period known to the entity today, and in what connection?
    (A) They may be known, as grandchildren. [See 1206-3 Reports.]
39. (Q) Is Peter known to me today?
    (A) Not known. There are many of the Apostles, as has been indicated, or Disciples, that may be known. There's Bartholomew that may be known. There is Andrew, there is Jude (thy brother) that may be known. There is even Judas - don't know him, shouldn't know him; not as a fault in his, but better not. John may enter, and will be known - and as one that may be proclaimed by the entity. These come only, to be sure, as conditions - but may become personal experiences. Just as this: How personal is thy God? Just as personal as ye will let Him be! How close is the Christ as was manifested in the physical body, Jesus?
    Just as near, just as dear as ye will let Him be!
    Oft ye may ask, from thy enquiring mind, when I so desire to know Him, why then do I not see, do I not hear?
    How long, O Lord, how long? Look not for a sign, as a SIGN, as He gave, but BE - and ye ARE as One with Him!
    These become not as trites, not as sayings - they must be EXPERIENCED by self! They may not be experienced by merely being told. Ye live them! "As ye live in me and I in the Father, ask what ye will and it will be done unto thee."
    Ye wait, then, knowing. He knoweth what thou hast need of before ye ask. Then ye say, Why ask?
    In the love of thine own children, is it those who ask or those who do not ask that make a response? Not that ye love one more than the other; not for impunity, but a reciprocal reaction!
    Those things are as God is. And they that would know Him must BELIEVE that He is; and most of all ACT that way!
40. (Q) Should I hope and seek for personal experiences or contacts with Jesus as a personality now?
    (A) As has been indicated, this may be - but this ye live. Not as a desire for self-exaltation; that is, self-proof, self-evidence; but it is evidenced IN thee when ye ARE (in thy living, in thy thinking, in thy acting) One with Him.
    Then, and thus - how hath the angel given? "As ye have seen Him go, so will ye see Him come." Were those just as words? No.
    Thou hast seen Him oft in the acts of others and the personality ye called by another name, yet ye may see Him. And when He speaks, "Be not afraid, it is I." Know He is near. And in the breaking of bread ye may know Him!
41. (Q) In my Life Rdg. you say, "If ye would know Him, ye must endure." What is meant by Him, and what character of experience must I endure to know Him?
    (A) This is as has been given again and again, in that as just said. Endure? That is, endure the unkind things that may be said about others. Endure that which is OF the world. For as He said, "Ye are in the world but be not of the world, even as I am in the world but not of the world."
    That is, the imaginative forces that impel the activities are then to be creative - and in so doing, if it requires the self-sacrifice, if it requires this or that experience, THAT is enduring.
    But we are looking as He gave, "I go to prepare a place - if it were not so I would have told you - that where I AM there ye may be - I AM!"
    "Who shall I say hast sent me?"
    "I AM THAT I AM!"
    Does it not all remain then as a whole?
    For without Abraham, without Moses, yea without David, what need could there be that Melchizedek, that Enoch, or Joseph, or Joshua, should again come in the flesh? fulfilling all?
    Have ye fulfilled all? When ye have, ye are One with Him - are ye not? Is it not a reckoning? It IS!
42. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See 1158-2 on 5/31/36 and 1158-7 on 2/23/37.

REPORTS

1. 11/15/37 She obtained another Ck. Life Reading - See 1158-10.

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