This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 12th day of December, 1936, in accordance with request made by the wife - Mrs. [...], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [333].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

TEXT

1. EC: Yes. Now as we find, conditions as exist in the present and that as MIGHT have been should not be considered in that manner in which ANY would minister for good.
2. For what is, IS. And to meet the conditions as they exist in the present becomes then the condition to be considered.
3. For there may have been errors, there may have been miscomprehension of the first causes; yet each that would minister to the needs of a soul in its experience in any environ MUST (if for self or for the best environ for an entity's experience in the present) hold no animosity, no grudge; but know that what has been is the soul's meeting of it's own SELF in the present.
4. Then as individuals, meting to the needs and administering in that way as is in keeping with the ideal of each one that would minister as is of that they as individual souls would worship or would consider as attributes of that God or that influence in their experience that they would or could worship.
5. To give a history of the conditions as they exist would be to give those experiences through which those influences of the body under stress and strain has passed, meeting in the various aspects of its own experiences and applications of that it HAS done about its ideals in the material plane.
6. Hence those things that have come as accidents, those things that have come that have brought the incoordination of the mental forces with the physical attributes of the body, are but a portion of that necessary experience for those about the body as well as the body itself.
7. For with no undue consideration is the fact before each soul that with each temptation, with each error, there IS a way of escape IN Him; but no man, no individual man, may ever play or work at being God Himself.
8. These then, as we find, are the conditions in the present; that the necessary quiet as has been ordered, the necessary consideration of all phases of the entity's experience are a part of that as must be carried on.
9. There might be given measures for various approaches. Yet first, before such may be given to be evaluated, to be of a helpful influence, there must be a change of attitude in the minds and the experiences of those that would minister about the body.
10. One may not pray with long prayers of thankfulness for this or that, as in the experience of others, and still hold a grudge or a feeling of animosity, or a feeling of undue consideration for other individuals at least attempting - in their own ways - to be of help, whether in a feeble way or in whatever way. For all power that is in the hands of man has been LENT, and it is not of man's knowledge but of God.
11. Thus when individuals hold a grudge they are fighting the God within themselves against the God within the individual or soul for whom or towards whom such is held.
12. Then keep those administrations that have been given for the body. And change only the attitudes of self, of those about same, in "Thy Will, O God, being done in and through each act, each thought, may bring that measure of faith, of help, of sustenance, for this body in its present conditions, awakening within the physical forces that necessary for the soul development of this entity in the present."
13. And may each about the entity and that would minister for its good hold that same attitude. Not merely as a form but in reality, ACT THAT WAY!
14. For prayer and love, and care, may aid the most in the existent conditions.
15. Think not of self or of self's own interest, as to satisfying of same, but rather that self may be in EVERY measure faithful to the trust, to the circumstance that has brought about the conditions in the present.
16. And when these have been accomplished, then that as IS best, as IS correct for those about the body, for the body itself, is and will be accomplished in same.
17. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Wife - through Mr. [333]
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 11/21/36 Mr. [333]'s letter: "Enclosed is an application from another poor soul who is another one of those whom you contact every day by thousands working in the many relief projects here. One of those who has had everything taken away from himself and family during recent years.
   "In addition he met with an automobile accident three years ago. Mayo Brothers nor Johns Hopkins can find out what is the matter with him. Still with this condition he has plugged on with his profession of mechanical engineer steadily growing worse. He has been working in the same division as I and though he has produced little or nothing the men in charge have kept him on realizing his chances of employment in private industry were nil.
   "He is a graduate of the Univ. of Wisconsin and holds a master's degree.
   "They have just finished paying the hospital bills of three years ago.
   "Just recently he took a trip with the rest of us out to the project and fell down a pair of stairs sustaining a hernia. He is in the hospital recovering from the operation.
   "His income is small, only $2000, out of which he tries to support himself, wife and child.
   "Mrs. [...] has recently secured a job and she agrees to pay the membership fee in installments as she can. If this should become impossible the men of our organization will pay it. They want to help [1304] and they know of your work and that he is to have a reading."
2. 12/08/36 "Please send reading to me at ... as Mrs [...] does not want her husband to see reading first as information might upset him. I will see that she gets the reading as soon as it arrives."

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