Edgar Cayce Readings, 3485-1

Time and Place: 4:00 to 4:05 P. M. Eastern War Time. ..., N.C.

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GC: You will give the physical condition of this body at the present time; go over the body, examine it thoroughly; giving suggestions for help and relief; answering the questions he has submitted, as I ask them:
EC: Yes.
As we find here, there is a great deal of confusion in the mind of the body - and there may well be! For those disturbances are of such natures that the very nature and purpose of the individual entity must be changed, if there would be material help for this body.
Under the circumstances we would not alter the administrations that are being made. While these may not aid a great deal, they must satisfy the body and those about the body that they don't know what it is all about!
For here we have an individual entity meeting its own self - the conditions in regard to the movements of the body, the locomotories, the nerve ends, the muscular forces. What ye demanded of others ye must pay yourself! Every soul should remember not to demand of others more than ye are willing to give, for ye will pay - and, as most, through thy gills!
Then, when ye have found that these things are not helpful, we may give through these channels that which may be - if the body first begins to undertake to correct the attitude toward its fellow man, towards conditions and towards the world.
Make the world a better place in which to live. In whom and of what do you as a soul-entity obtain life and opportunity? What are you doing about it?
Consider and be wise.
We are through with [3485].
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BACKGROUND

11/25/43 [3485]'s letter to EC:
Mr. Edgar Cayce Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Mr. Cayce:
My wife and I have just completed reading the book, "There Is a River," by Thomas Sugrue, and are so impressed by the remarkable story that we want you to do something for me.
Briefly, I am the publisher of a small town newspaper. Nine years ago I established the paper as a daily in a community where a daily had never before been attempted. It has been an uphill fight all the way, with the publisher filling two to three men's places most of the time. Since the war the labor situation has been unusually difficult and the road increasingly strenuous for me.
I have been a sufferer from asthma since five years old. I have been treated by many physicians but the decision is always the same, no cure, only temporary relief. To keep my paper running I had to resort to the hypodermic needle years ago. I have to take daily injections of morphia and adrenaline chloride to obtain sufficient relief to look after my business. Recently I have been losing weight, the medicine finally proving almost as bad as the disease. The trouble is accompanied by respiratory troubles common with asthma.
I have always felt the paper was my mission in life and I do not wish to give it up, so I am appealing to you for help. I feel confident your remarkable power should be as beneficial to me as others you have served. I have always felt there should be some spiritual force beyond the conception of medical science, something that would prove to this doubting generation that there is a force beyond human understanding available to those who seek it. Surely it must be God working through you.
I shall be happy to follow whatever direction you will be kind enough to send me, and my wife is as impressed as I am.
Trusting that you will come to my aid as soon as humanly possible, I am [3485]
12/21/43 [3485]'s letter to EC:
Dear Mr. Cayce:
I am enclosing list of questions for my physical reading Dec. 27 at 3:30 P.M. I will be at my home ... Street, where I have been very ill for the past three weeks. Describe patient's condition. Is he capable of treatment and recovery? If so, what treatment is recommended, where obtainable?
Can it be administered at home satisfactorily and take place of present treatment? Should patient continue at present to task when able to do so? Will he be able to drop present treatment without severe after effects?