(Q) Give the best method of helping the human family
increase in knowledge of the subconscious soul or spirit
world.
(A) The knowledge of the subconscious of an entity, or an
individual, in or of the human family, is as of one integral
force, or element, or self in the creation of the human
family, and until the entity, or individual, as individuals,
make this known to groups, classes, countries, nations, THE
GREATER STUDY OF SELF, that force will only be magnified.
That of the spirit is the spark, or portion of the Divine
that is in every entity, whether complete or of the evolution
to that completeness.
The study from the human standpoint, of subconscious,
subliminal, psychic, soul forces, is and should be the great
study for the human family, for through self man will
understand its Maker when it understands its relation to its
Maker, and it will only understand that through itself, and
that understanding is the knowledge as is given here in this
state.
Each and every person getting that understanding has its
individual force toward the great creation, and its
individual niche, place or unit to perform. Has to reach
numbers of psychic forces or phenomena that may be manifested
in the earth plane, all the same, yet the understanding for
the individual entity, viewed from its own standpoint, with
its knowledge, is obtained and made ready by itself, to be
manifested through itself, towards its own development, and
in that development of the creation or world. In this
manner, and in this form, and in this way, will the
development (TO STUDY THE FORCE AS GIVEN THROUGH THIS MANNER)
be of assistance to the world.
As in dreams, those forces of the subconscious, when taken or
correlated into those forms that relate to the various phases
of the individual, give to that individual the better
understanding of self, when correctly interpreted, or when
correctly answered.
Forget not that it has been said correctly that the Creator,
the Gods and the God of the Universe, speak to man through
this individual self. Man approaches the nearer condition of
its approach to that field when the normal is at rest; sleep
or slumber, and when more of the forces are taken into
consideration, and are studied by the individual (not someone
else) it is the individual's job, each individual's
condition, each individual's position, each individual's
relation, each individual's manifestation, each individual's
receiving the message from the higher forces themselves, and
for each individual to understand if they will study, to show
themselves approved.
"In all thy getting, my son, get understanding." [Prov. 4:7]
That of Self. When one understands self, and self's relation
to its Maker, the duty to its neighbor, its own duty to self,
it cannot, it will not be false to man, or to its Maker.
Give then more thought, FOR THOUGHTS ARE DEEDS, and are
children of the relation reached between the mental and the
soul, and has its relation to spirit and soul's plane of
existence, as they do in the physical or earth plane. What
one thinks continually, they become; what one cherishes in
their heart and mind they make a part of the pulsation of
their heart, through their own blood cells, and build in
their own physical, that which its spirit and soul must feed
upon, and that with which it will be possessed, when it
passes into the realm for which the other experiences of what
it has gained here in the physical plane, must be used.
The attributes of the soul and spirit are as many, and as
many more, as the attributes of the physical or mental mind.
Each, in the beginning, endowed with that same condition -
position. Each, in itself, building to itself, through its
development known through the ages, as called from the earth
plane, that which is manifest upon the earth. With each
development, that force, known upon the plane as WILL, is
given to man over and above all creation; THAT force that may
separate itself from its Maker, for with the WILL man may
either adhere or contradict the Divine law, - those immutable
laws, as are set between the Creator and the created.
The study of these, through their phases and forms, and
especially through any of those phases, wherein the carnal or
material or normal forces are laid aside, and the ever
present elements of spirit and soul commune with those of the
forces as found in each entity. Study those and KNOW
THYSELF.
(Q) What is the law of love?
(A) Giving. As is given in this injunction, "Love Thy
Neighbor as Thyself." As is given in the injunction, "Love
the Lord Thy God with all Thine Heart, Thine Soul and Thine
Body." In this, as in many, we see upon the physical or
earth or material plane the manifestations of that law,
without the law itself. With any condition we find as this,
which is the manifestation of the opposite from law of love.
The gift, the giving, with hope of reward or pay is direct
opposition of the law of love. Remember there is no greater
than the injunction, "God so loved His Creation, or the
World, as to give His Only Begotten Son, for their
redemption." Through that love, as man makes it manifest in
his own heart and life, does it reach that law, and in
compliance of A Law, the law becomes a part of the
individual. THAT IS THE LAW OF LOVE. Giving in action,
without the force felt, expressed, manifested, shown, desired
or reward for that given. Not that the law of love does away
with other laws, but makes THE LAW OF RECOMPENSE, THE LAW OF
FAITH, THE LAW OF DIVINE, WITH THE LAW OF EARTH FORCES, if
you please, of effect, not defective, but of effect.
So we have LOVE is LAW, LAW IS LOVE. GOD IS LOVE. LOVE IS
GOD. In that we see the law manifested, not the law itself.
Unto the individual, as we have given then, that gets the
understanding of self, becomes a part of this. As is found,
which come in one, so we have manifestations of the one-ness,
of the all-ness in love. Now, if we, as individuals, upon
the earth plane, have all of the other elementary forces that
make to the bettering of life, and have not love we are as
nothing - nothing. "Though one may have the gift of
prophesy, so as to give great understanding, even of the
graces in Hope, in Charity, in Faith, and has not the law of
love in their heart, soul, mind and though they give their
body to give itself for manifesting even these graces, and
has not love they are nothing." In many, many ways may the
manifestations of the law of love be shown, but without the
greater love, even as the Father giveth, even as the soul
giveth, there is no understanding, and no compliance of the
forces that make our later law to this, of effect.
(Q) What is a dream?
(A) There are many various kinds of manifestations that come
to an animate object, or being; that is in the physical plane
of man, which the human family term a DREAM.
Some are produced by suggestions as reach the consciousness
of the physical, through the various forms and manners as
these.
When the physical has laid aside the conscious in that region
called sleep, or slumber, when those forces through which the
spirit and soul has manifested itself come, and are
reenacted before or through or by this soul and spirit force,
when such an action is of such a nature as to make or bring
back impressions to the conscious mind in the earth or
material plane, it is termed a dream.
This may be enacted by those forces that are taken into the
system, and in the action of digestion that takes place under
the guidance of subconscious forces, become a part of that
force through which the spirit and soul of that entity passed
at such time. Such manifestations are termed or called
nightmares, or the abnormal manifestations on the physical
plane of these forces.
In the normal force of dreams are enacted those forces that
may be the fore-shadow of condition, with the comparison by
soul and spirit forces of the condition in VARIOUS SPHERES
through which this soul and spirit of the given entity has
passed in its evolution to the present sphere. In this age,
at present, 1923, [See Background of Reading
3744-2] there is
not sufficient credence given dreams; for the best
development of the human family is to give the greater
increase in knowledge of the subconscious, soul or spirit
world. This is a DREAM.
(Q) How should dreams be interpreted?
(A) Depending upon the physical condition of the entity and
that which produces or brings the dream to that body's
forces.
The better definition of how the interpretation may be best
is this: Correlate those Truths that are enacted in each and
every dream that becomes a part of this, or the entity of the
individual, and use such to the better developing, ever
remembering develop means going toward the higher forces, or
the Creator.
(Q) Definition of the word evolution with reference to the
human family:
(A) Evolution with reference to the human family. Evolution
is, as commonly understood by the human family, and upon
which there has been much discussion by many peoples, and the
question has become one that involves many different phases
and meanings to many peoples. Evolution is as reference. In
reference to the human family, means rather resuscitation of
those forces that have gradually brought man to understand
the law of self from within, and by understanding such law
has brought the better force in man to bring about the
gradual change that has come to man, known through all the
ages.
Man was made as man. There was, there is, as we find, only
three of the creations as is given, matter force and mind.
In each we find that, in the forces as is developed into the
conditions, as we find at the present time. All flesh is not
of one flesh, but the developing of one has always remained
in the same, and has only been to meet the needs of man, for
which there was made all that was made, and man's evolving,
or evolution, has only been that of the gradual growth upward
to the mind of the Maker.
(Q) Is the Darwinian theory of evolution of man right or
wrong? Give such an answer as will enlighten the people on
this subject of evolution.
(A) Man was made in the beginning, as the ruler over those
elements as was prepared in the earth plane for his needs.
When the plane became that such as man was capable of being
sustained by the forces, and conditions, as were upon the
face of the earth plane, man appeared not from that already
created, but as the Lord over all that was created, and in
man there is found that in the living man, all of that, that
may be found without in the whole, whole world or earth
plane, and OTHER than that, the SOUL OF MAN is that making
him above all animal, vegetable, mineral kingdom of the earth
plane.
Man DID NOT descend from the monkey, but man has evolved,
resuscitation, you see, from time to time, time to time, here
a little, there a little, line upon line and line and line
upon line.
In all ages we find this has been the developing - day by
day, day by day, or the evolution as we see from those forces
as may be manifested by that, that man has made himself the
gradual improvement upon the things made by man, yet made to
suffice the needs of certain functioning portions of man's
will force, as may be manifested by man, but ever remaining
that element to supply that need, whether of sustenance or
other functions of man's individual needs, as created by man,
this becoming then the exponent of the force as his Creator
made him, for the World, and the needs and conditions, man's
compliance nearer with those laws brings him gradually to
that development necessary to meet the needs of the
conditions, place or sphere in which that individual is
placed. As in this:
The needs of those in the North Country not the same as those
in the Torrid region. Hence development comes to meet the
needs in the various conditions under which man is placed.
He only using those laws that are ever and ever in existence
in the plane, as is given in that of relativity, that being
the needs from one relation to another.
The theory is, man evolved, or evolution, from first cause in
creation, and brings forth to meet the needs of the man, the
preparation for the needs of man has gone down many, many
thousands and millions of years, as is known in this plane,
for the needs of man in the hundreds and thousands of years
to come. Man is man, and God's order of creation, which he
represents even as His son, who is the representative of the
Father, took on the form of Man, the highest of the creation
in the plane, and became to man that element that shows and
would show and will show the way, the directing way, the
Life, the Water, the Vine, to the everlasting, when guided
and kept in that manner and form.
(Q) Where does the soul come from, and how does it enter the
physical body?
(A) It is already there. "and He breathed into him the
breath of life, and he became a living soul", as the breath,
the ether from the forces as come into the body of the human
when born breathes the breath of life, as it becomes a living
soul, provided it has reached that developing in the creation
where the soul may enter and find the lodging place.
All souls were created in the beginning, and are finding
their way back to whence they came.
(Q) Where does the soul go when fully developed?
(A) To its Maker.
BACKGROUND
Subject of 3744-5 - "Psychic Phenomena through the
Subliminal."
See
3744-4 answering questions Par. 29-A through 38-A.
See
3744-1 and
3744-2 Background for information in re
[
3744] series.
REPORTS
See subsequent data on [
3744] series in [
900] series.
See
254-4, naming this book "Psychic Phenomena Through the
Subliminal."
Report by GD
1/04/51: In [
254] series readings on "the work"
and in Mr. [
900]'s readings further questioning took place
re: answers in [
3744] series.
Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993, 1994, 1995 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation