This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce for the Eighth Annual Congress of the Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 13th day of June, 1939.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. All those attending the Eighth annual Congress.

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1. GC: You will continue the discourse begun this morning on World Affairs which Edgar Cayce will present at the opening meeting of the Eighth Annual Congress of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc. Please comment fully on the conditions which exist in each of the principal countries.
2. EC: Many will ask, "What has the foregoing to do with conditions which exist in the various countries? What has it to do with those countries that are called democracies; or Fascism, Communism, or any of the totalitarian countries?"
3. As everyone should see from that which has been indicated, it is that there must be first the individual conviction of the need to trust God for the needs of His people at all times and under every circumstance, whether this is under democracy or any other form of government.
4. The disturbance has ever been, since the first disagreement as to what sacrifice and as to the character of sacrifice was to be offered, that someone is to set a rule by which all others are to be judged, or to which all are to conform, - when the RULE is - and should ever be - that as was proclaimed from the beginning, "Know, O Israel, the Lord thy God is ONE!"
5. And while each soul seeks to manifest in a material world, the purpose, the idea, - yea, the ideal is that all are to work in unison for the good of all.
6. What, think ye, has caused or did cause that meeting of the democratic countries, or the democracies and the totalitarian states? Was it because of the wisdom of the men that met, or that either of the four there had their own way? Rather was it not the prayers of the mothers and the fathers of each nation represented there, that there might not be that destruction of human life which would be the natural outcome of open conflict? [Versailles Treaty?, Munich Agreement?]
7. It is, then, still the challenge to each country, to each nation, - that while there is, to be sure, the natural instinct or purpose of self-preservation, it is to be less and less of self and more and more for that which was from the beginning.
8. Then, there needs be that not so much be set as to this ritual, or this form, or the other, for any given peoples or any nation, but rather that the individuals in each nation, EVERYWHERE, are to turn again TO the God of the fathers and not in self-indulgence, self-aggrandizement, but more and more of self-effacement.
9. For as the people of each nation pray, AND then live that prayer, so must the Spirit work.
10. Then - each of you here - GIVE GOD A CHANCE to show what great blessings He will give to those who love Him. This does not mean that ye, or ANYONE, would condone persecutions anywhere or in any form. For, know ye, His laws fail not, - "As ye sow, so shall ye reap."
11. Man can only begin, then, within himself. And as he applies that he knows, that he understands of God, in his daily life, so may there be given him the next step to make.
12. Then ye ask, "What is to be the outcome of England and France in their efforts to join hands with Russia as an encirclement of the totalitarian regime?" These, so long as they are in keeping with God's purposes with man, will succeed. When they become active for self-preservation without the thought or purpose of their fellow man, they must fail.
13. So it is with the endeavors of Germany, Italy, Japan. As they attempt to preserve their own personalities, their own selves, without thought of their fellow man, they may succeed for the moment, but "God is not mocked," and whatsoever a man, a country, a nation sows, that it must reap.
14. "What then," ye ask, "is to be the outcome? What is there that I can do about it?"
15. Let thy daily life be free from criticism, from condemnation, from hate, from jealousy. And as ye give power to the Spirit of Peace, so may the PRINCE OF PEACE, the love of God, manifest.
16. So long as ye turn thy thoughts to the manners and means for meeting and overcoming those destructive forces, ye show forth that which may bring to the world that day of the Lord. For the promise is that in the latter days there shall be the purposes in the HEARTS of men, everywhere!
17. There IS in every land today - through the prayers that have gone up for the last two years - a more seeking for that at-onement with Creative Forces, a more seeking for the knowledge and the purposes of God, than there has been for ages.
18. Then, rest not on those things that become as quicksand about thee, but on the true, the tried arm of God. For the earth is His, and the fulness thereof.
19. To each of you, then: Give God a CHANCE! Know that no man is in authority or in power in the earth today save as has been granted of God, the He, the Father, may be better known. Man sees only for the moment. When man has purposed in his heart, God hath seen the end thereof.
20. And what is the will of the Father? That no soul should perish! And ALL will be, all ARE, tried so as by fire.
21. The fires of nature are what? Self-indulgence, self-glorification.
22. Then, turn ye - every one - to the Law of Love, and love thy neighbor as thyself.
23. We are through for the present.

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