This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 10th day of August, 1940, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [2205], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Miss [2205].

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1. GC: You will give at this time a Mental and Spiritual Reading for [2205], born March 8, 1903, in Lunenburg County, Virginia, and now present in this room. She seeks guidance and direction in better understanding herself and relationships with those with whom she comes in contact who influence her life. Considering the information given for her through this channel May 8, 1940, you will counsel with her at this time and answer the questions she submits:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [2205]; together with the information which has been indicated in the experience of the individual through the earthly sojourns - as to influences, forces, abilities, and weaknesses as well as virtues.
3. In analyzing the mental and spiritual attitude of this entity, first it is well to consider also that which is materially manifested in the physical body.
4. Each entity, each individual, finds that it has a body, a mind, a soul; each with its attributes, its desires, its hopes, its fears.
5. Here we find an entity, an individual, allowing confusions to arise in such manners because of disappointments and fears, - disappointments in self, and fears as to the attitudes of others.
6. These are bringing into material manifestation detrimental influences upon the physical being of the entity.
7. Then, let's analyze each phase of the entity's urge, - not only that arises from the present experience or sojourn, but that is manifested and latent from the experiences in other sojourns.
8. Here we find a body with all its attributes, with all its desires, with all its laws that govern not only the manner of thinking but those reactions which also arise from same.
9. Here we have a mental being, or body, that IS the builder. This partakes of both the spiritual and the physical aspects of the individual entity, as in relationships to the physical urges as well as those of the spiritual nature.
10. Here we also have the spiritual aspect, the soul, the latent power, the God-force, the first cause; these have their attributes, their urges, as well as their seeking of expression in this entity.
11. Through circumstance, through desire innate and manifested, there have come about those influences which - unless physical as well as mental changes are wrought - will continue to undermine the mental and the physical being; because the spiritual forces are not as of a one-track nature (as sometimes indicated or thought of, or spoken of), but are rather as the universal consciousness being aware of that which is the sum of all that has been created, brought about, or borne, in the soul-experience of the entity through its sojourns in the earth.
12. Then, as the entity - through the mental force - allows these to become of a destructive nature rather than as a constructive influence, the centers or relationships between the mental body and physical body are being undermined.
13. Hence we have a physical condition first to be considered, and that in relationship with the coordinating of the physical and mental attributes of the body, - or the finding of expression through the sensory system, in the awareness of activity through the body. For it is through the very emotions of the body, the sensory forces, that there has come those influences which bear upon the physical and spiritual as to cause the disturbing influences.
14. Thus we will find the hindrances in those centers of the cerebrospinal system from which impulses are received for the sensory forces. For in the coordination of the sensory forces and the cerebrospinal system there have come those physical activities that are destroying the equilibrium of the mental and the physical body.
15. These then, through the proper osteopathic adjustments, through the correcting of their relationships and then coordinating the spiritual being of the body, or its ideal, with its activity in its relationships to others, will bring harmonious influences in the experience of the body; thus bringing greater outlook, greater possibilities, greater opportunities, greater influences upon those conditions and circumstances in the experience of the individual entity.
16. While there are those opportunities, those possibilities for the physical correction to be done in a mechanical (osteopathic) manner, the mental and spiritual corrections are to be done within self - but not alone.
17. There should be the realization, the awareness, of there being present within thy being a body that is thine, a mind that is thine, a soul that is thine alone - as in union with the Creative Forces, given by the Creator as a manifestation of the love shown, the opportunity to give expression to and to manifest His presence in the earth!
18. Hence each entity seeks, and should know first within self, what is its ideal.
19. Ask thyself what is thy ideal, - mentally, spiritually, physically, - and know that ideal is able to answer to any question, any disturbance, any experience that may occur in the experience of self under any and all circumstances.
20. For it is, - it was, it is, - thine own self from the beginning, working with - and in coordination with - the divine that is the gift of the Creative Forces in making manifest in a material world those attributes which are of the creative nature. These are the children, the seed, the property of LIGHT, - that is, hope, patience, longsuffering, brotherly love, kindness, gentleness.
21. Hate, jealousy, despair, ANY that take hold of darkness, are the children of Darkness. These ye would put away.
22. Know, as He hath given, "If ye will love me, IF ye will love me, keep my commandments; for my commandments are not grievous." They are only hope, joy, love, patience, understanding! They are the commandments of Him, - who is able to sustain thee in every trial mentally or physically; and to keep them in the way as to manifest joy, love, hope, in thy dealings with thy fellow men.
23. In the mental attitude, as to thy ideal, - this is not, then, that ye are to be longfaced or as one shutting self away from material joys, material understandings! but ye are to APPLY them as that which will bring creative influences, not destructive influences, in the experiences and relationships one with another.
24. For, as has been indicated, and which is applicable in thine own experience day by day, "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."
25. Then the ideal as to material, physical relationships one to another:
26. Just as indicated regarding the body, the mind, the soul. For, all phases of the body-physical must coordinate one with another as a unit, if it is to be healthy, well, strong.
27. So in thy physical ideals, physical relationships with others, these must coordinate with the ideals in relationship to thy mental and spiritual ideals! Thus they bring the considering not of what others would do for you so much, as of what you may do for others - in THEIR relationships, in THEIR activities!
28. Thus as ye mete out day by day in thought, in conversation, in activity one with another, thy mind and thy body and thy soul seeks to create that environ, that activity, that influence, that force in the experience of others that is a continuously constructive, hopeful, helpful influence.
29. These ye can do with His help, - not alone. For they that seek to justify themselves in any manner attempt to climb up some other way.
30. But putting thy whole trust, thy whole faith in Him, HE will make thy burdens easy; He will make thy life, thy experiences a joy in thy relationships to others.
31. First, then, - have those corrections made in the activities of the physical being, or body. Lesions will be found in the coccyx, - that is, the end of the spine, - in the 9th dorsal, and in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd dorsal, the 1st, 2nd and 4th cervical. Have those corrected, - by Dr. Tucker.
32. And in thy meditation, in thy prayer, - study the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th of St. John; not just as rote, but as though He were speaking with thee. For it is to thee, as ye embrace, as ye encompass that awareness of His presence; and all else will be eradicated. For His promise is and has been, "I will abide with thee - I will not forsake thee nor leave thee comfortless - I stand at the door and knock."
33. Open then to Him, for He is able to keep thee in the way thou shouldst go.
34. Ready for questions.
35. (Q) How can I overcome my nervousness?
    (A) As indicated, it is a mental and a physical condition. Eradicate the physical cause, by making those physical corrections in the manner indicated; and let the mental rest upon that source of assurance which taketh away fear.
    Hold to that thought, "Fear not, it is I - be not afraid!"
36. (Q) My Life Reading indicates difficult urges from the Civil War incarnation, especially a tendency for unorthodoxy. How can I become orthodox in my thinking and in my behavior toward all people, including myself?
    (A) It has been outlined for thee in those chapters indicated. Read them, and as ye read practice what ye read; not as a dogma, but as a daily living! Walk with it, - not talk it, but LIVE IT - BE IT; and ye will find while that which is so orthodox or denominational will not be so apparent, the love as He speaks of, the new commandment "Love ye one another" will persuade, will direct, will aid, will keep thee.
37. (Q) How can I overcome my terrible fear of myself, my impulsive actions?
    (A) Just as outlined.
38. (Q) How can I stop being too tenderhearted, or balance this urge with understanding? Explain fully this urge and how to meet it.
    (A) As indicated, when there is the analysis of self as to urges, physically, mentally, and the spiritual ideal, and these coordinated in the same manner as the physical body is to be coordinated, we will find the application of those tenets, those manners of conduct as He indicated we should have one towards another, in those verses and chapters given. Though those characters may appear to be individuals, or the advice given to them as individuals, remember that those - as Philip, Thomas, Peter, John - represent characteristics within thine OWN individual self! Hence the recording of the doubts, the fears, that first one and then the other express - then the desire, the hope, the physical ability to fight, the physical expression to embrace - are as attributes in thine own experience; and the way is open before thee.
39. (Q) How can I stop thinking of the past and live only for the present and the future?
    (A) Leave that behind which is of itself a hindrance. For, know, as He has given, sufficient unto today is the good or the evil thereof.
    But with the corrections physically made, those tendencies that have been brought about by the poisons poured into the physical being from the doubts and disappointments in self, in others, the fear of hurting others, the fears of what others will think if they were to know thy thoughts, will all be eradicated.
    Rather pour out thy thoughts to Him who is able to put them in their proper place, their proper relationships as to thy life, thy purposes, thy desires, thy hopes; and this He has promised to do. For with that promise has been given, "Put my yoke upon you and learn of me, and I will make thy yoke easy and thy burden light."
40. (Q) How can I overcome the baseness and meanness in my mind and body? Where does this feeling come from and how can I understand it?
    (A) As just indicated, DO the things indicated first, - the physical corrections of the body; and with same interpret in thine own body those promises found in the chapters indicated. These will bring to self that awareness which He has given from the beginning; that man's purpose, man's thought is to do evil in the material world. Thus the necessity for the Master - the first Adam, the last Adam - to manifest in a material world to show each soul the way, the manner of approach to ALL phases of man's urges, physical, mental and spiritual.
    And as indicated, KNOW that ye cannot bear them alone. In HIM ye will find, ye may find, ye do find, the light.
    Then, let thy prayer oft be:
    "LORD, HERE AM I! THOU KNOWEST ME ALTOGETHER. THOU KNOWEST MY PURPOSES, MY DESIRES, MY HOPES. MAKE THEM, O GOD, ONE WITH THEE! THAT I - AS THY CHILD, MAY FILL THAT PURPOSE, THAT PLACE THOU HAST SET FOR ME, NOT IN MY WAY BUT IN THY WAY, LORD, KEEP ME!"
41. (Q) Under the circumstances, should I attempt to carry on my regular teaching work this winter?
    (A) If the osteopathic corrections are made, and if the purposes are set, ye will do better work than ye have ever done!
42. (Q) How can I induce normal and natural sleep at night?
    (A) By doing those things as we have given!
43. (Q) How can I develop will power and confidence in myself?
    (A) By doing that outlined!
44. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file
    (GD's note at time of reading: See extra sheet [which was enclosed] of directions for Dr. A. R. Tucker, 411 Masonic Temple Bldg., Raleigh, N.C.
    Extra sheet of Osteopathic directions for Dr. Tucker, 8/24/40, since she had given her other sheet to Dr. Richardson of Norfolk - who treated her almost daily until then, from the time she had the Rdg.)

BACKGROUND

1. See 2205-1, a life reading.

REPORTS

1. 8/22/40 She obtained a Check Life Reading on the Palestine-Roman period - See 2205-3.

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