This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 25th day of March, 1944, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [3124], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. (Notes read to and transcribed by Jeanette Fitch.)

TEXT

1. GC: You will give the physical condition of this body at the present time with suggestions for further corrective measures, answering the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.
3. As we find, there have been physical improvements in the body, yet there is much, much to be desired.
4. As indicated for the body, this is a karmic condition and there must be measures taken for the body to change its attitude towards conditions, things and its fellow men.
5. So long as there were those practical applications of the mechanical things for physical correction, and there were those concerted efforts on the part of the body's friends to make intercession in prayer, improvements were indicated.
6. When the body becomes so self-satisfied, so self-centered as to renounce, refuse, or does not change its attitude, so long as there is hate, malice, injustice, those things that produce hate, those that produce jealousy, those that produce that which is at variance to patience, longsuffering, brotherly love, kindness, gentleness, there cannot be healing to that condition of this body.
7. As first indicated what would the body be healed for? That it might gratify its own physical appetites? That it might add to its own selfishness? Then (if so) it had better remain as it is.
8. If there is the change in mind, in intent, in purpose, and the body expresses same in its speech, its acts, and there is the application of those things suggested in the manners suggested, we will find improvement. This does not mean merely the massages with the oil or the taking internally of the grape and grape poultices over portions of the body but all of them (the California grapes would be satisfactory to use here).
9. But first the change of heart, the change of mind, the change of purpose, the change of intent.
10. If these are done, then keep the massages also. But don't be so selfish or so self-centered that there is the imagination that others will not respond. If ye show thyself friendly, ye will find friends. Will ye pray, will ye ask God and Christ to forgive thee? Will ye forgive others? For it is only as ye forgive that even the Savior, the Christ, is able to forgive thee. But if ye forgive it will be doubled to thee in thy abilities, in thy activities, in thy improvements.
11. Do use the Appliance that has been suggested, consistently. Yes, it carries those elements that are material. But what is the spirit of gold? What is the spirit of any element that has life-giving influence in itself? Is it of thine own making or is there not the power within as was given from the beginning? It has always remained there, for it is of the first cause of life, the Word, the principle; that which may be made thine if ye turn to Him who is the Life, who is the Light, who is thy Savior - if ye will but accept Him.
12. All of the mechanical appliances that ye may muster will not aid to complete recovery UNLESS thy purpose, unless thy soul has been baptized with the Holy Spirit.
13. In Him, then, is thy hope. Will ye reject it? He offers, "Today - if ye will harken, if ye will but listen, if ye will but begin to apply love, hope, faith, forgiveness." Then may ye indeed be washed in the blood of the lamb that taketh away the sin of the world - thy world. Thy body is indeed the temple of the living God. And what does it appear in the present? Broken in purpose, broken in the ability to reproduce itself! What is lacking? That which is life itself, which is of and is the manifestation of that influence or force ye call God, that is God in manifestation.
14. Will ye accept, will ye reject? It is up to thee.
15. We are through - unless ye make amends.
16. We are through with this reading.

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BACKGROUND

1. See 3124-1 indicating he had multiple sclerosis.

REPORTS

1. 4/25/44 Friend of [3124]'s letter to Mr. A.M. Godfrey:
   "I am writing this for [3124] of ..., Delmar, New York, who has asked me to have you send along any of the necessary charcoal and other supplies for his battery. He says he doesn't need any Gold Chloride at this time, but does need a lead loop for the Gold Chloride bottle cap. I think you will know what he needs.
   "As I am handling his finances, I wish you would give me a statement of the amounts of money received for supplies for him, since last August and particularly to give me the dates on which you have received money since January 1st. At the same time, send me a bill for the material ordered above..."
2. Mr. Godfrey replied that a month's supply of ingredients for the Wet Cell Appliance cost $1.90.
3. 9/18/44 Sarah Robertson's letter:
   "Your letter of September 11th was received, and I think you are mistaken about my being an Associate Member of the Association for Research and Enlightenment. My connection was through letters I wrote for Mr. [3124] who is now in a New York hospital. While I appreciate very sincerely Mr. Cayce's generosity and kindness to Mr. [3124], my own trend of thought is along medical lines, and I am now working in a hospital in Asheville.
   "With best wishes for all of you, and again thanking Mr. Cayce for his kindness and interest in Mr. [3124]..."
4. 7/60 In Dr. Pahnke's breakdown of 69 cases of multiple sclerosis from the Edgar Cayce records, Case [3124] was classified in Group I.

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