This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 29th day of August, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [1436], new Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [1402].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [1436].

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1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [1436].
2. Now, as we find, there needs be consideration given for the physical forces of the body. For the body MUST manifest that which IS a growth of the mental self.
3. So much is expected, so much required of this body-mind, it is well that the spiritual and the mental be included with the physical forces of the body in the present.
4. First, then, for the physical forces:
5. Here we have disturbing forces owing to an unbalanced condition between the purely physical and the mental and spiritual self.
6. Hence we have conflicting influences and thus, as has been indicated, a crystallizing in the physical of the physical deficiencies through inabilities of the body to assimilate that which has been the diet with sufficient of the elements to keep an equal balance in the physical body.
7. Thus the disturbances through the digestive system, the inclinations for the functionings of the vibratory forces of the organs through the pelvis and the activities of the system, bring about the inefficiency of the replenishing forces, by the activity of the glandular system to supply the elements necessary for the bodily functions.
8. First, then, from the basis of activity of the spiritual in a physical and mental body:
9. Spiritual is, to be sure, eternal; and thus is the image of that which is Creative - or that is termed in materiality Godlike in its nature.
10. Then, there must be - and are - contacts within the physical to the points from which, through which, the spiritual and mental must coordinate for the activities of a physical body.
11. The vibrations of the body, then, have NOT kept (in the physical) in accord or attune to the vibrations of the mental and the spiritual self - to the detriment of the physical self, as indicated from the points of accumulations or those points where segregations form in cysts, tumor and the like in the body.
12. Then, Mind being the Builder - yet physical activities and the spiritual or life elements of same in the form of that assimilated - is the contact for the life forces in materiality or physical body.
13. Hence we have in the analysis the acids, alkalines, potashes, in their natural forms; and these are assimilations from the diets of the body. These through their deficiencies have produced that effect upon the vibratory centers of the body. The glands of the system become then deficient in their activities.
14. These then, as we find, make for hindrances that have brought and do bring about these disturbing conditions - physically.
15. Then, the body-mental being incoordinant or not coordinating, WITH a deficient physical being, the HIGH MENTAL efficiency and activity, with the environs about the body there is created then an added disturbance for the mental forces - and all have their effect upon the bodily functions.
16. Know this; that all healing of every nature must come from a mental attitude created by either that activity within the system as food, as medicine, as activities, the principle of which is constructive in aiding those deficient portions to become coordinant with the rest of the system for constructive forces.
17. Whether this is taken internally, mechanically applied, laying on of hands or by the spoken word, the EFFECT must be the same; but each in its sphere of activity.
18. Do not judge, then, MENTAL things ONLY by material reaction or activity; nor judge spiritual things except as the patterns or reflections of those things in a material world.
19. Hence for this body, we would add first as these:
20. That which will first arouse or cleanse the system for the activity of the glandular forces of the body.
21. Take, then, one minim of atomic iodine (Atomidine) - do not take more than this at a time - in half a glass of water before the morning meal, for three mornings; then leave off for three mornings; then take again for three mornings. Or, take it three days each week, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays; leaving off until the next Monday and then take again. Do this for a period of three weeks.
22. This will raise that activity to the pulsation, to the heart's activity, cleansing the thyroid, the thymus, the glandular forces of the digestive system; arousing an activity in the hepatic circulation, changing the order of vibration through the adrenals, and making through the caecum, through the ileum activity or plexus a reduction in irritation as aroused by the improper coagulation in the blood supply.
23. Also we would begin immediately with using each day for thirty minutes (not longer for the first thirty days) the vibrations from the Radio-Active Appliance; that we may create the coordinant vibratory forces of the body to the FUNCTIONING of the bodily forces in the physical activities.
24. And make this thirty minute period each day as the period of meditation. Let the meditation be put in the body's own words, but following as this:
25. "GREAT CREATIVE FORCES, I AM THY SERVANT; AND WOULD GIVE MYSELF IN BODY, IN MIND, IN SPIRIT, TO THE SERVICE OF MY FELLOW MAN THAT THE CREATIVE FORCES MAY BE THE BETTER UNDERSTOOD, AND MAN'S RELATIONSHIP TO SAME KNOWN IN THE HEART OF MEN."
26. "MAKE THOU, THEN, MY BODY WHOLE, IN THE WAYS, THE MANNERS, IN WHICH I MAY SERVE THIS PURPOSE THE BETTER."
27. And MEAN what is said, and ACT that way.
28. Then after the three weeks of taking the Atomidine and using the Appliance as indicated:
29. We would begin then with the mechanical applications as may be applied through the OSTEOPATHIC profession. Mechanical adjustments are necessary, then, in the coccyx area, in the last dorsal area, in the 9th dorsal area, and through the upper dorsal and cervical; such as may be had in the Dobbins' method. These would only be twice a week for six such treatments, rest a whole month before they would be applied again for some three or four treatments - unless emergencies should arise.
30. In the matter of the diet: Here we find there have been extremes applied in the experience of the body. At times there have come doubts, and again there was assurance, and a mental condition wherein the call of the bodily forces was not coordinant with the needs of the physical body.
31. At least have two meals of cooked food each day, and one meal at which there is NO cooked food. Meats should be taboo, save that occasionally of fowl or fish. Citrus fruit juices OR cereals (not the two together or at the same meal). Whole wheat WELL-cooked, rye and barley mixed - these are well to be taken for the body under the existent conditions.
32. And as we find we will bring for this body a NEW UNDERSTANDING, a NEW coordination, in the physical and the mental and the spiritual being.
33. For the spiritual and mental body:
34. Each entity, each soul, enters the material experience for purposes. These are not individual or of a selfish nature, though they are very personal in their application and their practice.
35. Each soul meets CONSTANTLY itself; not alone in what is called at times karma or karmic influences. For remember Life is God; that which is constructive grows; that which is destructive deteriorates.
36. Then, KARMIC forces - if the life application in the experience of an individual is made towards constructiveness, it grows and grows. For the individual entity GROWS to a haven of peace and harmony and understanding; or ye GROW to heaven, rather than going to heaven. Ye grow in grace, in knowledge, in understanding.
37. Then, what is the purpose of this entity's experience in this particular phase and time and period?
38. To many the entity is far in advance of its time, its period; it having caught a vision as from the mount, and the vibration or the sun of light has risen for the entity; only to be shaded by selfish indulgences in the MINDS of those that have directed - NOT the entity!
39. Remember then as this: There are promises made by the Creative Forces or God to the children of men, that "If ye will be my daughter, my son, my child, I will indeed be thy God."
40. This is an individual promise. Hence the purposes are for an entrance that the SOUL may be prepared for an indwelling with the soul, the mind of a living God.
41. How, then, ye ask, are ye to know when ye are on the straight and narrow way?
42. "My Spirit beareth witness with thy spirit that ye are indeed the children of God."
43. How? Thy God-consciousness, thy soul, either condemns, rejects or falters before conditions that exist in the experience of the mental and material self. Mind ever is the Builder.
44. Then, as ye show forth the fruits of the spirit. What are these? Faith, hope, patience, longsuffering, kindness, gentleness, brotherly love - these be those over which so many stumble; yet they are the very voices, yea the very morning sun's light in which the entity has caught that vision of the NEW AGE, the new understanding, the new seeking for the relationships of a Creative Force to the sons of men.
45. And indeed then the purposes are to manifest in such measures those fruits that they who are weak take hope, they who have faltered gain new courage, they who are disappointed and disheartened gain a new concept of hope that springs eternally within the human breast.
46. For God is not mocked, and whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
47. Remember above all, as He hath given, "As ye do it unto the least of thy brethren, of thy associates, of thy companions, day by day, ye do it unto thy God; yea, the God within THYSELF!
48. For unless the answer is "My spirit beareth witness with that which is my hope for life, my conception of eternity, my conception of life that is THY conception" - unless it beareth witness with these, ye are indeed wandering far afield. But His promises have been, "Seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto thee."
49. And these become then thy mission. Open the door for those that cry aloud for a knowledge that God is within the reach of those that will put their hand to DOING; just being kind - not a great deed as men count greatness, but just being gentle and patient and loving even with those that would despitefully use thee. For the beauties of the Lord are with those that seek to know and WITNESS for Him among men.
50. That is thy mission, that is thy purpose, in this material experience.
51. What then is the mental attitude to be? In keeping with that which has been given, "Lo, Lord, I am thine - to be directed as THOU - not my fellow man, but THOU - would direct."
52. For He hath given His angels charge concerning thee, that ye faint not by the way. For He stands - STANDS - at the door and knocks, and if ye will open He will come and sup with thee. For He IS life and light and immortality; and the way is good.
53. Ready for questions.
54. (Q) How can I maintain a physical and mental balance without so much physical exercise, and produce a normal balance in my sex urges?
    (A) As has been indicated, the glandular system has been disturbed. Now: By the creating of a normal balance within the body for its physical and mental and spiritual well-being, we not only create a normal physical balance but then give - in the expressions of what has been indicated for the physical and mental body - an OUTLET for the beauty of sex.
    Do not look upon sex as merely a PHYSICAL expression! There is a physical expression that is beauty within itself, if it is considered from that angle; but when the mental and the spiritual are guiding, then the outlet for beauty becomes a NORMAL expression of a NORMAL, healthy body.
55. (Q) When did this condition begin?
    (A) About a year and a half ago, it began - when there were excesses as to leaving off of energies that found expression in the minds of others rather than in the expression of doing for others.
56. (Q) Has my diet harmed me?
    (A) As has been indicated, this has grown gradually to an extreme, and hence has at times - with the outward expression of so much of energies of self - BROKEN the coordination between physical AND the spiritual and mental well-being.
    Now when we speak of the mental, know that it is as a channel; that is, it is both material and spiritual, and hence is the builder. For when there is an excess of energies used in any direction, without the supplying in each of its phases the material and the spiritual, it becomes unbalanced and incoordinant - not cooperation or coordination.
57. (Q) Please explain the cause of the growth on my body and what should be done for it.
    (A) As we find, it is from the accumulations of the energies not expended in their proper channels. Hence, apply those applications that have been indicated first for the GENERAL health.
    Then as these alter, locally apply that which would create a dissipation of same; or an equal combination of Mutton Suet, Turpentine and Spirits of Camphor - gently massaged. This should be done only AFTER there has been set to work those activities through the general physical system, through the things or treatments indicated.
58. (Q) Is this a cyst or what?
    (A) A cyst, as has been first indicated.
59. (Q) I am particularly disturbed at times with conditions of the female organs. Please explain.
    (A) As has been indicated in the activity of the glandular system, these are a portion of the mental and physical and spiritual being. Those channels through which procreation in the activity of the material forces becomes active, the central organizations through which the vibrations may be consciously raised within the body FOR activities in the deeper meditations - these have OVERCHARGED by lack of applying the conditions or supplying the physical emergencies or physical conditions and the using of the energies by the activities of the body in deeper meditations, the breathings and other activities which have been a portion of the body-physical's resources.
    Then, when we make these corrections as indicated, we should find normal conditions coming about.
    First, as indicated, an arousing of the glandular forces of the body to activity - through the Atomidine.
    Second, the vibratory forces of the Radio-Active Appliance, in which there is a union of purposes within the consciousness and the superconsciousness for the use of the body, mind and soul for constructive forces.
    Then, thirdly, the activities of the mechanical manipulations, OSTEOPATHICALLY, for a distribution or dissemination of energies through the body by the correct coordination of the physical energies.
    And then the use of the self in body, in mind, for those purposes for which it has entered; and we will find the body regaining its equilibrium in EVERY sense.
    Do that.
60. (Q) I have not menstruated in a year.
    (A) This is a stoppage of those very influences that have become as a part of the activities in the attempts for the system to eliminate that which should go through the normal channels.
    And we will find after the periods indicated there should be the beginning, not normal at first but gradually the growing towards normalcy in all directions.
61. (Q) Have I been wrong not to have sexual contact? Would it do me any good?
    (A) The body has not been wrong! The body would NOT be physically benefited by such - until there are the activities within the physical, the mental, the spiritual self for the proper balance in activities in the Creative Forces, as well as the mental and material things for the better coordination in all.
    Do the first things first, as has been indicated for the body; following same with the mental attitudes, putting self within the care, the keeping of the Infinite Love that is thine, that ye may show forth the love of the Father, the beauty of a life lived that the glory of the Son may be manifested in the lives of thy fellow men.
    Not unto thyself but in Him is all might, all power, all glory.
62. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self (two copies; one for doctor in California)
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. GD's comment: Miss [1436] was a beautiful girl but skin and bones, completely debilitated, had been living for months exclusively on raw salads, juices, etc. - no cooked food.

REPORTS

1. 10/20/41 See 1436-4, Par. 6-A, re. thyroid and theelin injections.

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