This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of Mr. David E. Kahn, 20 Woods Lane, Scarsdale, N.Y., this 22nd day of November, 1940, in accordance with request made by the father - Mr. [...], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [257].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [2404] and Parents, [759] and [773].

TEXT

1. HLC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions, also suggestions for help and relief of this body. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the mind, [2404].
3. As we find, there are evidences of unusual abilities with this body, if there is once removed the feelings of the inferiority, or the self-condemnation.
4. This, then, has somewhat to do with those disturbances that appear to be a part of the experience of this entity, [2404] we are speaking of, present in this room.
5. In analyzing the physical conditions, it is well that the mental abilities be taken into consideration - especially here.
6. As we find, there are disturbing conditions that have been and are a part of the whole, or of the entity's experience through its search for that purpose for which it entered this present sojourn.
7. These disturbances that for a part of the experience must not be allowed to become a hindrance. There is a feeling of a hindrance, of an experience that to the entity in its activities at times becomes a hardship; or there is a feeling of not being fully equipped with those same possibilities or opportunities as others.
8. Yet, as we find, these disturbances may be eliminated, if those opportunities are taken hold of as we will outline here. This will necessarily require a great deal of patience, and the proper consideration of values in the experience of the entity as a whole, and a great deal of consistency.
9. Hence, put the first things FIRST, and the experiences and awarenesses, - that is, the faith and the belief in being at one with creative or divine forces - which are the birthright of every soul manifesting in the earth.
10. These then are conditions as we find to be met:
11. In the general physical forces we find some strain upon what may be termed the reflexes of the EMOTIONAL body, or the mental self. This, with the injuries that have come to the optic center in a part of the activity of same, becomes a source of this imaginative condition that the self is not fully equipped to meet all of the emergencies, all of the needs. And this, as indicated, is a source of irritation, or that producing within self the reactions to conditions, to circumstances, to desires and hopes and the aspirations of the body, - as something to be aware of, and yet the feeling of little as may be done about same.
12. Know this, - that all healing of every nature - no matter what the physical application may be - must come from the divine. It is then the attuning of the body, no matter what the defects, no matter what the hindrances or the injuries may have been, - whether of a very subtle nature at times (as indicated here), that may undermine the choices made through the mental abilities of a body, or whether of a purely physical nature.
13. For instance, the general health here - though nominally good - is IRRITATED at times by this feeling of being hindered, or an inferiority complex within the self.
14. Then, the conditions to be met, - but remember these things that have just been given. Seek ye first the kingdom of God, within; and all these things HE, thy father, thy God, seeth ye have need of, may be added unto thee, and given thee. For it hath been declared of old that perception, awarenesses that come to each soul through the organs of the sensory system - vision, hearing, taste, smell, feeling - and the exercising of same - are the gift of God; and that soul is either in attune with or interfering with God's purposes for it.
15. The injury has caused a lesion in the vision itself; so that there is a spreading of the vision of the injured optic.
16. And this, as we find, WITH the right attitude, WITH that purpose for which it may be healed, may be used in those directions as to the glory of the divine! There may be applied those material things that will attune this again to a vision, a use, an expression of that which is found ONLY in Him. For, in Him ye live, ye move, ye have thy being; and He hath promised, "If ye will call, I will hear - and answer speedily!"
17. Do not conceive that this is not thy individual promise! For He hath said, "Whosoever will may LEARN of me, may apply the virtues in his own experience in such a manner that I will call him mine own, and will raise him in power, in might; that He may declare the holy, the acceptable day of the Lord."
18. The lesion here was formed by an injury direct to the vision center, and is upon either side; thus causing the vision to appear sidewise, rather than direct.
19. Now: There are those areas in the bodily forces from which each organ, each portion of the system receives impulses for circulation; from which that assimilated in bodily functions receives that which enables each portion of the body to rebuild itself - through the glandular forces, through the lymph and the emunctory circulation of all portions of the body.
20. Here, these receive their greater impulses of nerve activity AND circulation from the 1st and 2nd dorsal centers, through which impulses and nerve flexes react to the optic center - IN the plexus of the vagus center at the base of the brain.
21. In the CERVICAL centers - as in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd - we have the impulse for the blood supply, both the internal and the superficial; from the 2nd and 1st to the deeper circulation, from the 3rd to the superficial.
22. Hence, by the proper consideration of that to be assimilated, and stimulating those areas indicated in a manner as to cause greater flow of impulse of blood and nerve energy, there may be brought new life, new influences upon those areas that have - through injury - adhered in such a manner as to deflect, as to prevent vision being recorded upon the lens of the eye itself. Portions of this lens itself has received injury, yet the body - as is understood from the pathological angle - replenishes and rebuilds itself; but WITH that pattern that is already set - or that as produced by exterior conditions as may become existent.
23. Thus stimulation to areas that control the activity may alter, may aid; WITH a mind, with a purpose, with a DESIRE that same be used ONLY in magnifying the goodness, the love of the divine force; which may also bring to the consciousness of self the awareness of the needs of the physical being.
24. Do this BODILY stimulation with mechanical (osteopathic) adjustments. This should be twice a week for a series of four weeks; then leave off a week; then do it four weeks again. Then leave off two weeks; then have the treatments four to six weeks again.
25. WE would have these applications made by such as Dobbins.
26. AFTER the osteopathic treatments have been taken for the first series of four weeks (not before), - we would THEN begin with the low electrical forces that apply with same - in this case - the salt, to the bodily forces themselves; with the eye lens covered and this electrical force being applied directly to the glass over the eye.
27. Here again it will be best that the treatments be taken in series. Why? As we have indicated through this channel, the body functions must attune themselves to changes being wrought in the physical forces of the body.
28. Hence we would have periods of treatment, then periods of rest or relaxation from same, see?
29. For these electrical forces we would have such as Erlanger.
30. Have the periods of treatment, then the periods of general relaxation. And use such periods as those in which the body itself gives thanks; not verbally alone, but thanks to the Creative Forces or God for that being accomplished within self, - more by just being kind, just being patient with others in thy dealings with thy fellow men.
31. In those things, those conditions ye seek to establish in thy relationships to others, magnify rather the spirit OF the activity. For, the manner in which ye THINK, the manner in which ye act TOWARD thy fellow man, thy home, thy friends, thy neighbors, - yea, thy enemies, - it is the manner, the concept, the purpose thou hast toward thy Maker!
32. Do these, then, - knowing that the greater power, the greater source of thy healing must be WITHIN thine own SELF and thy reactions to thy circumstance, thy conditions about thee.
33. The abilities are of such natures as few are given. Hide them not. The BEAUTY of expression is in nature, in making same a part of every individual's experience.
34. Aid others in appreciating the beauty, - even of mud, of snow, of nature, of trees, or the ability to communicate one with another; the meanings of home, of environment, of peace, of harmony.
35. And the God of thy fathers keep thee!
36. We are through.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file
    Copy to Mr. [257] (See extra sheet of directions [which was enclosed] for Dr. Dobbins [Dr. Frank Dobbins, 551 Fifth Ave., New York City] and Dr. Erlanger [Dr. Gustav Erlanger, 20 West 77th St., New York City], to be used as the time comes for each one's treatments.)

BACKGROUND

1. 12/20/39 Mr. [257]'s letter: "Mr. [...]'s boy, [2404], had an injury to his eye similar to the one of [773] and also [1844]."

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