This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 7th day of April, 1941, in accordance with request made by the self - Dr. [2067], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

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

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the body and enquiring mind of [2067], N.Y.C., who seeks information, advice and guidance as to her life and work. You will answer the questions she has submitted, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the enquiring mind, [2067]; and those problems of every nature as confront the body at this time.
3. As we have indicated, in that field of writing and teaching the entity may find the greater outlet for its abilities; though there appears in the present to be no place or activity in which the body is immediately desired.
4. Be sure in self's own consciousness that there is a full compliance of self with the ideals the self has respecting its relationships to the Creative Forces. Evaluate the relationships in the light of self's own convictions respecting same, as to how the ideal may be expressed or manifested in the relationships with others.
5. Then set about filling ALL such in that manner which is in keeping with the abilities.
6. Ready for questions.
7. (Q) Can you outline the general plan or major undertakings God wants me to accomplish from now until I lay down my present life?
   (A) God seeks that each soul be a manifestation of His influence as manifested in Jesus in the earth.
   As to the way in which an individual soul goes about expressing same, - this is ever to be the choice of the individual entity.
   For, as ye know, and as has been well said, - to some is given the gift of ministry, to some healing, to some preaching, to some teaching; some in one direction, some in another. As just indicated, choose thou - today - HOW and WHOM ye will serve; whether self or thy Creator. He desires that each soul GLORIFY - not justify but glorify Him in the earth; through that He would have thee do in this experience.
8. (Q) Is it God's will that I combine teaching in some school with writing all the rest of my life, or for approximately how many years?
   (A) Again - there is no SET time. For, when ye have completed thy purpose and there are greater, better fields in which ye may serve, it will be pointed out to thee.
   Do not look upon thy service or thy activity in the light of having so many days or so many months, or so many years of active service. Rather do with all thy might and power and will what thy hands find to do, and thy mind, to glorify the love of the Father as manifested in the Christ, in thy relationships to thy fellow man.
   Whether there be one day or a thousand years, one month or ten that there is the service in teaching or in writing, DO TODAY that thy hands find to do! And let that be EACH day!
9. (Q) Am I qualified for the presidency of Chowan College and is this a part of God's plan for me this year or possibly in the future?
   (A) If this is the choice of self as a place of opportunity to serve thy ideal in thy relationships to teaching, then seek same.
   If there is the feeling that self would not have the opportunity of expressing self to the fullest of its ideal, because of any activity, whether such orthodox principles or what not, then it could only be halfhearted.
   ALL of self must be made as a manifestation of that ye seek to manifest.
   If this is the choice, seek same.
   As to qualifications, - who is to say whether or not thy feelings in these directions would hinder thee from giving the best of self in service there, save thy own self?
   Hast thou not read how that Peter proclaimed his sincerity on the eve of the trial? Hast thou not read the warning the Master gave? Hast thou not also read that commendation, "WHEN thou art converted..."?
   When THOU art converted, STRENGTHEN thy brethren.
10. (Q) At Chowan where people are expected to believe in "close communion" and to criticize those who do not, what would I do if cornered in regard to these beliefs?
    (A) Hast thou not that principle within self as He manifested, that there may be that in self as condemns no one? And no man condemns thee for never condemning!
    For, did He - the Master - not demonstrate that when those in authority or who were set in judgment proclaimed, "By our law she shall be stoned to death"? What was His answer? Did He deny the law? Did He not rather proclaim that they who were without sin be the first to cast the stone? Hence, - "Where are those thine accusers? No man remaineth, Lord. Neither do I condemn thee - sin no more."
    Let that thought, that principle, that purpose which prompted such, be thy answer - and not in words, - rather in thy activity one with another.
11. (Q) Would my health and strength be sufficient to work all the year and summers gathering up students and doing publicity for the college?
    (A) If that is the purpose, it will!
12. (Q) Would not the position at Chowan College absorb the time God wishes me to use to present material to the world indicated in the Cayce Readings?
    (A) Live them, - and the time for presenting will be given also.
13. (Q) If I accept the position in English at ..., S.C., would I be more in line with God's plan, since I would have the summers off for writing as well as time during the year?
    (A) As first indicated, search thine own heart as to the principle, the manner to meet thy ideals in a sincere service to others.
14. (Q) Regarding the position in English, would I be able to conceal my great interest in the Cayce work and allied subjects and be able to hold permanently this position, if I accept it?
    (A) Again, what is thy ideal? Ye cannot serve God and mammon! Ye MUST learn, even as He, OBEDIENCE - through the things YE have suffered! And in thy activity, let not thy good be evilspoken of.
15. (Q) With my next position has the time arrived when I should refuse to mention spiritual and psychic truths and hold my position, trusting to writing for the spiritual outlet?
    (A) LIVE them, - rather than any expression that would cause animosity or feelings. Hast thou not read, "I will be all things to all men, that I may thereby save the more"?
    These are principles that ye need to live, not merely say in words. For thy religion, thy Christianity, must be a practical, liveable, everyday thing; not merely a coat or a garment to be put on and off.
16. (Q) Is this English position the place where I am to meet my mate or companion about which I have formerly been told?
    (A) This again is the choice of thine own mind, according to "What seekest thou?"
17. (Q) Can I honor God also, along with hard work and unselfish conduct, by taking honors open to me in the future, such as - a. Applying for Phi Beta Kappa key promised me by a former college. b. Later, by having my name suggested for Who's Who when some books are published? c. By developing a college or organization of my own for spiritual study?
    (A) This can only be answered from within self, not by any influence outside of self. Know, as indicated, ye need conversion WITHIN! For, one may serve God sweeping the streets, scrubbing the floors, or as a king - or even as a dictator of a nation!
18. (Q) Since a "pen name" now seems necessary, can you suggest one with a pleasing sound and successful vibration? I have thought of "Oma White", "Gloria Hope", "Thesea Edell".
    (A) Thesea Edell is the better of these. But these are not as well as one that might be taken from thy activity indicated through the material plane in former appearances.
19. (Q) Which one, or ones, would be best?
    (A) Again, choose. Read, study, analyze what thy purposes were in each.
    In which of these did ye conform to thy own ideal, in a service to God and man? Then choose that.
20. (Q) About my books - what type of book am I fitted best to write?
    (A) That which is an illustration of man's approach to the divine, through the trials of the body, including the spiritual awakening and the variation or difference between physical and spiritual love.
21. (Q) Can you suggest anything further to do about my book How to Succeed in Love and Marriage, and what publisher would be likely to publish it?
    (A) As we find indicated, there are several portions of same that need to conform to that as may be gained by analyzing what we have just indicated.
    Then, as to publisher - any of those activities WE would give through some good agency, rather than appealing or sending direct to a publisher.
22. (Q) This summer I expect to revise my book, Child of the New Era, and call it Psychic Experiences of Children - any suggestions as to further revisions, and what publisher would be interested?
    (A) As we find, the farther the individual stays away from the word "psychic" the better, - unless it is first analyzed and determined as to its complete meaning - in the revising.
    Then present to thy agent for children's books.
23. (Q) I have gathered the historic material for my book Thesea, or Dawn of a New Day. Can you give me a suggestion as to plot, can you tell me what Thesea's other name was, by which she was known to history (which one of Herod's nine wives was she?), and can you tell how she was killed?
    (A) She was the third wife of Herod, killed by exposure and starvation. The name was just Thesea, or the entity was known by that name. As to plot, this has been outlined. [5/20/41 See 254-109, Par. 19-A re. Thesea.]
24. (Q) For my book to be written on Egyptian incarnation [See 294-147 thru 294-152] when people were losing animal appendages through the Temple Beautiful, I have found Thompson's Mysteries and Lore of Monsters which gives historical cases of mermaids, cyclops, centaurs. Did these man-animal combinations exist in large numbers 12,500 B.C.?
    (A) There is some confusion as to the conditions. Many existed in the period. But the loss of the animal appendages was through operative forces in the Temple of Sacrifice, not in the Temple Beautiful. There was also the preparation of individuals through reading and through the application of the laws of diet, as to make such appendages be gradually released entirely from certain types of individuals. Only those who had mixed with the thought forms had same, you see.
25. (Q) Please describe the ceremonies in the Temple by which the human-animal combinations could in a life-time lose a tail, or change a paw to a hand, or an animal body or head to a human.
    (A) As just indicated, surgery - as we would call it now.
26. (Q) How much transformation from the animal to the human could be completed in a life-time?
    (A) Little, save in the offspring - by the change of thought, diet, AND the operative forces. In the third or fourth generation it was completed.
27. (Q) Are there other books and material I can get to help on these transformations?
    (A) These would necessarily be in the form of the older books written rather as legendary tales, see?
28. (Q) I am trying to write a book of humorous ghost stories to get truth before the public in an entertaining way. Do you have suggestions as to material, possible publishers, and success of such a book?
    (A) We would forget this, for at least two to three years.
29. (Q) I am thinking of writing a little book of humorous short stories. What are your suggestions as to material, publishers, and possible success?
    (A) These are very well. Human interest stories are preferable. Read some of those that were popular in 1902-3-4, short stories of such natures as these. Combine such from that type or style, and we will find that through thy agent most anyone will publish same.
30. (Q) What will be my future work with the Assoc. for Research & Enlightenment, and will the pamphlets, books, and moving pictures that I may be able to write be of success?
    (A) That must be a choice of self, and this will depend a great deal upon circumstances, activities, contracts, trades, changes that are to be and will be made in thy associations and connections.
    As to the writings, - this again will depend upon the presentation, and the manner in which the ideas and not ideals are expressed.
31. (Q) What is the best way for me to get divine guidance for my numerous problems and enterprises? I pray all the time.
    (A) Turn within. There is no better way than reading and analyzing the last admonition of Moses to his people, in the last chapters of Deuteronomy, and the messages found in the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th chapters of St. John that were repeated over and over by John to the Mother of the Lord, who had so seldom heard the closer terms and descriptions used. Read these not with the attitude that you believe this, or do not believe that. As you read, apply the messages not just to anyone but to SELF - as though He, the Lord, were speaking alone with thee! Read only about five to ten verses each day. Then apply that given in those verses for a day! Then read five to ten more, - apply that. You will find a regeneration. For, remember, - thy body is the temple; there He has promised to meet thee. There ye may commune with Him - NOT outside! That from the outside must answer to that within.
    What is thy relationship to Him?
32. We are through for the present.

    Two copies to Self (one for [307] if you care to send it to her)
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See 2067-5.

REPORTS

1. 4/07/41 Questions submitted which did not get asked:
   10. What did God want me to accomplish this whole heart-breaking year that I have been out of my regular work, and have I accomplished it?
   11. I have felt divinely led to join a very conservative Baptist church and to rededicate my whole life to Jesus Christ, accepting the old-fashioned gospel. Please explain if this is really divine guidance and how I came to be led to do this unexpected thing?
   12. One thing puzzles me terribly. How can I fit the blood atonement gospel story with the Cayce Readings on evolving humanity through reincarnation?
   13. Does a loving God, not angry with humanity for its fall into matter to raise matter higher, demand a blood atonement of His Son to satisfy Himself and allow Himself to raise lost humanity? Please explain the meaning of "blood sacrifice" of Jesus, and why His life and resulting death is not enough to save without reference to "blood sacrifice."
   14. Why am I continually placed in a situation where I have either to deny the truth to hungry advanced inquirers and sell my opportunity for a job, or be cast out? What does this mean and must it continue?
   15. Is there something in my subconsciousness that should be brought to light and dismissed that has caused my nervousness and difficulty in sleeping throughout life? What is the remedy?
   16. Please outline a plan pleasing to God for the use of the beautiful New Hampshire property by the lake with the buildings I built.
   17. What does God wish me to do this summer - write, make a home for the two sons and daughter, and for visitors and friends?
   18. Can I solve my great problem, pleasing to God, if I leave out of my teaching and work in school community all mention of psychic things, Cayce Readings, and do my real spiritual work under a "pen name"?
   19. How can I do the most good in these times? Will I ever be free to teach spiritual truth, or to be my natural self and keep a job?
2. 4/11/41 [2067]'s letter to EC:
   ..., New York City Mr. Edgar Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment Virginia Beach, Virginia
   Dear Mr. Cayce:
   I want to thank you very much for your great kindness in sending on the information through the Reading to the answers to my numerous questions. Many things came through that I wanted and needed to know, and many things also were referred back to me to answer myself. I will do the best I can with those, knowing light will be given in due time.
   I feel it is almost like writing to God to write to you, you have been such a force in my life, a spiritual director as it were, an opener of the way to the light. I wish it were possible to sit under your teaching each week. From intuition, from your profound study of the Bible, and from the insight that comes through the Readings all these years you must have much knowledge the rest of us are not able as yet to obtain. There is one spiritual question that I asked that I had hoped would get answered, but which I know you know the answer to in your ordinary waking state, so that perhaps when you have a minute's free time you would be glad to do a little missionary work on me. The question I asked is not put in any critical way but just a hunger for the light. It involves the following issues which I think you can help me on when you feel so led and have time and strength.
   In the list of questions I told how recently I had almost been reconverted and led back to the old ways that in my search for truth I had seemed for a time to get away from. (In one of the answers in the Reading it said, "Ye need conversion within.") I wonder if the answer refers to what has taken place - since I have no caste scruples and evaluate the lowest labor as essential, as a means of honoring God as much as national honors - to which the question seems to refer - question 11 [2067-6, Par. 17-A]. In turning again to the "old paths", and not knowing just why I have been moved to do so, or why led to come under the preaching of a conservative Pastor, I find myself moved to accept things as truth that I cannot explain or relate to some other things. In a past Reading it was stated that I had never understood the meaning of "blood sacrifice". Do you, and can you explain to me how and why a blood sacrifice is a part of a gospel in which reincarnation, and sowing and reaping are essential parts? If one suffers for all one's sins or mistakes, where is the necessity for another to suffer for the same, and how can one suffer or bear another's sins? I understand how one can live and die for truth and sacrifice one's life's blood for truth and for others as an outcome for proclaiming truth, but I don't yet know how to think of it as a satisfying of a God that is angry or needs blood for any mistakes that blundering humanity has made in its sacrificial work of taking on matter to raise matter and better to serve God. Can you explain this to me? In other words, how can I fit the blood atonement gospel story with the Cayce Readings material on evolving humanity through reincarnation, a reaping and sowing, a perfect justice, an earning and deserving of what one gets?
   Thank you again for all the help that you have been to me. I try to live for God every day and to do what my hands find to do for Him every moment. I help others all I know how to help them according to my light.
   May I enclose a note to Hugh Lynn regarding the Pamphlets?
   Very sincerely, [2067]
3. 4/16/41 EC's letter to [2067]:
   Dear Dr. [2067]
   Thank you for yours of the 11th - you are most complementary but please don't compare me to any thing Divine, for am very human, too much so for my own good am sure. Do hope the information will be of a help, for no matter how marvelous it may appear, is worthless unless it can be of practical value, am sure Dr. [2067], you realize there are many questions that we must answer for ourselves, and to preclude ones own will. Well, God doesn't even do that, we must choose for ourselves.
   Now in trying to answer your question - wish might sit down and talk with you, for naturally from your own experience and reading you have many preconceived ideas, and any explanation therefore only makes questions. But Please don't try and fit the reading, if the readings are not an explanation of the GOSPEL then please discard them all together. For if the source isn't the same source, don't have any thing to do with them at all - for they are very harmful - if they do not comply with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
   The need for Blood atonement - is not because of the Anger of God as I understand, but because of HIS Unchangeableness. When He said man would Die if he sinned HE meant it - and Jesus the man - in living the blameless life and being willing to die, fulfilled the law - by offering Himself as a sacrifice, for HE could have Willfully not have died - but willing to Die He brought LIFE more abundantly to all, made the way for all. Under the Mosaic law - there was blood sacrifice, not as other than the emblem of the releasing in blood - the Life - as each has to do, and that Jesus did once for all. By one man - Sin Came - by one man - (the same man) Life came - by the giving of His life Blood. Then the necessity of Blood sacrifice - indicates the sureness of God's promises. What HE has and does promise He fulfills, because we count time, and do not realize, all is ONE and because we have a bad year or two we begin to feel he has forgotten - HE cannot forget. It is we who do. IF, if re-incarnation be true, then Jesus must have re-incarnated also. HE did all He asks us to do. When we consider His life and the promises of God regarding the manner of life, in man we find HE fulfills all as is asked and required of man. As Adam, He knew not Birth, but did know death - as Enoch he knew birth but did not know death. As Melkizedeck he knew neither birth nor death - as Joseph He knew all the pangs of life, a pattern of his life as the Master. As Joshua, the leader, as Jeshua, the recorder of all as had been. As Jesus the life as sacrifice - for he Knew Himself to be Himself, yet - came to fulfill the LAW, thus becoming the Law. The Law then remains - those who live by the law, meet all they who live by faith in HIM are no longer under the law, save of Grace. In the material world law - mental Grace - spiritual Wisdom.
   That is possibly very crudely given - and causes thousand questions more or less to arise in your mind - but study it over - see if it doesn't conform. If not please disregard entirely. And to be sure it must answer to something within yourself. That Spirit that beareth Witness - with thy spirit.
   "Tho He were the Son - yet, learned He obedience through the things which He suffered" in a material world, in Himself He Knew - and as you will see in John 1 - that he gives as the reason John the Baptist had not fully arrived.
   Do hope you are feeling much better - love from all
   [signed] Edgar Cayce
4. 4/18/41 [2067]'s letter to EC:
   New York City
   Dear Mr. Edgar Cayce:
   Thank you very much for your letter of April 16 in answer to some of my personal questions. Yes, I know, as you say, that it is very much better to talk these things over face to face - and I look forward to another opportunity of this sort. It is almost impossible to answer questions by mail that do not have other questions, as you suggest arising. However, I appreciate your kindness in doing what you could to help, and it has helped. You know I am very serious in all these matters, for they represent my very life.
   It is a matter of more light, more direction in regard to fitting one thing with another. Often times a little explanation can make things to dovetail without any strain anywhere. I get much of this from the Readings - they open up the Gospel message in a way so that some of us can understand it, whereas otherwise we would pass it by as out of date and not applying at all to our time - even unthinkable at any time. But the Readings clarify many of these points. I am praying for light constantly, and hope you will do likewise for me. Once can do much better work when one understands.
   I am wondering if I am right as I reread your letter many times and think I discover that the man who sinned is really the Man who paid the price? That rally there is no substitution? You say that Christ was the first Adam and also the second Adam. That would make things very clear and absolutely just. I never can understand people not reaping what they sow - or having another pay a price for them when they have done nothing to deserve it - it seems so to clash with the idea of reincarnation which to me has been absolutely proven many times, and seems the only just and sensible way of explaining the universe.
   I am thankful for the added information you gave me on the incarnations of Christ.
5. 4/21/41 EC's letter to [2067]:
   Dear Dr. [2067]
   Thank you for yours of the 18th - now that we will be in N.Y. for two weeks beginning the 28th of this month - we will be at Mr. Kahn's. Am sure you have had notices tho - do hope you will find the time to come in possibly some evening and we may have a good long talk, lets see if we can't answer some of the questions that might be of a help - we will just try and reason together a bit.
   Correct - the man who sinned is the man who paid - just as each man does, and that he did pay the price - through his divine help, we too can pay and it be easy for us to do so - with the full assurance we live eternally.
   Think you will be able to corner H.L. long enough to find out a few questions you wish to ask, quite as easy as it would be for me to corner him here I expect, there are some two or three working on papers here so he can tell you what it is all about - he will come up with us and will stay until after the meeting on Tuesday night at the Shelton Hotel again.
   Hoping then to see you and with all good wishes.
   Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce
6. 6/25/41 She was present for a Check Life Reading regarding the Christ Ministery - See 2067-7.

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