Edgar Cayce Readings, 1447-4

(Body and enquiring mind, who seeks information, advice and guidance as to his life and work. Questions.)

TEXT

EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, Dr. [1447].
Now as we find, in giving advice and counsel regarding the activities of this entity, many things are to be taken into consideration. Not those alone from the material angle. For unless there is peace and happiness in the service the entity has taken respecting its relationships to the individual and to the public, and unless such activities be prompted by higher or more constructive motives than material gains, little of peace and happiness may be the lot of the entity.
For unless there is a service to the fellowman in bringing into the material experience relief from suffering, the aid to that of more hope and to a brighter outlook upon the experiences, such an activity becomes as very, very little of a glory or satisfaction even in the experience.
That the entity is in many ways fitted for such a service is self-evident, in that as the entity has been able to do and has brought into the experience of many.
But the cares of the world, yea the deceitfulness of material gain, have caused the entity to lose sight of the purposes for which the entity has come into the present experience.
For unless there is the spiritual hope, not in outward appearance only, but founded upon desires and purposes that the love of a gracious and merciful heavenly Father may be manifested among men, unless such constructive desires and purposes are the promptings of the heart, in no place, in no environ may the entity find that complete joy and happiness; that IS the heritage of all who give themselves in service for their fellowmen.
Let the entity then first of all take stock of self and of its purposes and its ideals. Are they grounded in material things alone, that there may be fame or fortune for the glory alone in same? Or is the life to be, are the expressions of its associations to be, a manifestation of the REAL purposes of a servant to the fellowman in this material experience?
For as ye do it unto the least of thy associates, thy brethren, ye do it unto thy Maker.
It is then not all of life to live for the gratifying of self, in self-indulgence, in self-glory, but more that in each contact, each association, there may be shown - NOT for self but for the glory of the Father - the love, the care, the hope that should be in the heart of each soul that seeks to be - in the chosen profession of the entity - a co-laborer with the Father-God in bringing hope and faith to the hearts of those that are weak, that are ill, that have lost hold upon their purposes in a material plane.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Is it possible to get a license permitting me to practice Naturopathy in Ohio the same as I now hold in Florida, and if so, how shall I go about getting it? Please give details.
(A) This under the present ruling of the state, as we find, is not compatible with the present laws. Not until there is able to be considered through the channels through which such license may be obtained, the full considerations of the Naturopathist - and this we find has in many quarters many dissenters. Yet as we find if there is the national activity and cooperation from the organization of the Neuropathists, this may in eighteen months or two years be accomplished, or when there has been the consideration by the state legislators of such an activity. Then the entity may obtain same, if it finds that those environs of Ohio are the more satisfactory.
Then we would give that in the present, to satisfy self in that consciousness of being not only within the law but as a living example of that which is a constructive influence in the experience of all, practice rather the profession in Florida.
And, as we find, the West Coast would be the more preferable; as Fort Myers, or Clearwater. For in those environs there are those activities in which the entity may make for associations and connections that would bring most satisfactory results by the use or application of the opportunities that may be the entity's in complying with and following those suggestions that have been indicated - in the entity's taking stock, as it were, of self.
(Q) What should I do about the business I am connected with here, The ... Medical Supply, The ... Studio, and The ... Medicine Supply?
(A) The Medical Supply is in capable hands, and may be continued in the same ways and manners as it has been and is being conducted if the policies of the activities are kept in the same accord.
As to the Studio, WE would give that this had best be disposed of - if the body is leaving the environs.
As to the medical supplies, these also may be kept for the activities that are considered.
(Q) My wife seems to be getting dissatisfied with me. What course should I follow in this matter?
(A) Here again as we find, as has been indicated, there has been lost sight of those purposes that brought the activities of these individuals into a cooperative influence or activity.
If there are those considerations given to the experiences of life, to the experiences of the purposes for which such activities are brought into being, then we may find - with the changing of the environment - a more close and a more purposeful experience.
Take the advice and counsel WITH the wife. Let the wife counsel with thee. Know that it is in the experiences a necessary purposefulness to which each owes self, not as a duty alone but as an opportunity for expressions in this material experience that may make for a larger view and a more hopefulness in the experience of each.
These done, as we find, may bring the association to become rather a constructive than a destructive influence in the experience of each.
Do not do that which causes thy conscience to question thyself nor thy motives.
We are through for the present.
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BACKGROUND

He previously secured years ago a Business reading and two Physical readings.
9/22/37 He submitted the questions for this reading.

REPORTS

10/37 [1447]'s letter to EC:
"Received your reading and I'm very pleased with the information. And I have decided to go to Florida as the situation here is unpleasant, and two years is too long to wait to change things here.
"I would like to ask one more question as you suggested Fort Myers or Clearwater. I believe I would prefer Clearwater, and the question is whether to go in for general practice or to establish a complete diagnostic and treatment clinic. Dr. [...], a friend of mine, would like to go in on the clinic proposition, and we would like your opinion as to whether or not it would be advisable..."
10/26/37 See 1447-5.