This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Hotel Warner, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 23rd day of June, 1940, in accordance with request made by those present at the Ninth Annual Congress of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.

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

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1. GC: You will give at this time a discourse on world affairs which will aid those assembled here in understanding what is taking place in the world today and in meeting the conditions which are to come in America.
2. EC: In the days of old, when there were those developments of man as to his attempts to understand his relationships to the Maker, warnings were given again and again as to what would be the experiences of individuals who professed one thing and lived another, or who attempted to use amiss that which was given them. And these came to pass in the experiences and in the generations of those peoples so directed.
3. These came about in the manners indicated, though not always at the times or periods as had been FELT or expected by individuals. For, oft such expressions are found in dealing with such, that "his day and generation has not been completed," yet in a little while there comes the opportunity.
4. Then there came that period in man's activity in which it was proclaimed, that no longer it would be in this temple or in this mountain that there would go out the message to the people, or to their gatherings here or there, but lo it would be written upon their hearts, - so that the old men should dream dreams, the young men should see visions, the maidens should proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
5. And then there came into the experience of the world HE who was rejected of man.
6. Only here and there, apparently for the little while, has there been that peace, that harmony which apparently was the promise of those, or to those, who would live or accept that promise as He gave, "I will come and abide with you always."
7. Why then the turmoil in the world today?
8. They have forgotten God! Not that it is merely a karmic condition of a nation, of a people; for, know ye not that the prayer of one man saved a city?
9. Thinkest thou that the arm of God is shorter today than in days of yore?
10. Then, as to the needs for those things and conditions which are to come to pass in America:
11. When many of the isles of the sea, many of the lands, have come under the subjugation of those who fear not man nor the devil, but rather would associate with that in which they may proclaim MIGHT and power as being right in that of the superman, that would be of the generations as would be established, - then shall thine own land see the blood flow as in those periods when brother fought against brother.
12. Then, what may ye do, what may ye think? Upon what may ye call? Only He who is able to keep that ye have committed unto Him against any experience that may arise.
13. When thou hast gathered thy hoards of the earth together, and have entrusted them to the keeping of those who are wastrels, what has been and is the result in thy own experience? Want and need has come to thy hand!
14. Yet when thou hast trusted only in Him, who is the Creator, the Maker of heaven and earth, then there has been peace and harmony, and sufficient unto the day the needs thereof.
15. Ye only live moment by moment. Then, make that moment - each moment - as one in which ye will give GLORY to GOD! by just being KIND, and patient, and loving to thy fellow man. Thus ye will indeed find that ye will entertain Him, who has promised to be thy Brother, thy helper.
16. For as He gave, "Put thy burdens on me - LEARN of me."
17. Then - as ye, as an American people, stand as a nation that has accepted Christianity, and has even put upon the coin of the realm "In God We Trust," - ye must not trust in the might of man, nor in political or economic conditions. For these, too, will find their changes; and in high places many will be brought low; and many who are of low estate will be set as a city on a hill - whose light also may be cut off from not being planted in Him who is the TRUE light.
18. Let thy voice be raised, then, as in praise to thy Maker; not in word alone but rather in the manner in which ye meet thy fellow men day by day. For the prayer, and the living of same by those sixty and four who are here gathered, may even save America from being invaded - if that is what ye desire.
19. For the Lord CAN, the Lord WILL, the Lord DOES preserve those who in RIGHTEOUSNESS ask. "Ask and ye shall receive; knock and it shall be opened unto you."
20. And as ye live, so may the Christian light of LOVE encompass the earth; not that of hate, selfishness, money, power, or fame!
21. Then, all ye who are gathered here, - Do not entrust this to someone else, but "I - even I!" Let rather thy cry be: "LORD, HERE AM I! USE ME IN THE WAY AND MANNER THAT THOU SEEST BEST FIT; THAT WE MAY PRESERVE THE FAITH WE HAVE IN THE LORD, THE SAVIOR, JESUS THE CHRIST; THAT WE MAY STILL BE AS ONE BROTHERHOOD; AS ONE KNOWING THOU ART NEAR; AS ONE MANIFESTING THY POWER, O GOD; NOT OF OURSELVES, BUT THAT OTHERS MAY SEE THY GLORY, - EVEN THE ONE NEXT TO ME. EVEN THOUGH HE MAY CURSE, MAY SWEAR, MAY DO THOSE THINGS THAT ARE UNSEEMLY, LET THY POWER BE MANIFESTED, O GOD; THAT JESUS, THY SON, MAY INDEED COME INTO THE EARTH; THAT ALL MEN MAY KNOW THAT HE IS THE LORD OF MY HEART, MY MIND, MY BODY, MY HOME, MY COUNTY, MY STATE, MY NATION!"
22. It must begin, though, with self, - lest ye know not the hour nor the day that He has turned His back on thee.
23. For He will not always bear with those who disregard Him; just as ye have seen those lands, those countries, those peoples give their blood. Let their suffering be not in vain, but glory ye rather in the cross of Christ. Suffer with them by giving of thy means, thy mind, THYSELF as channels to make His message known in the earth!
24. Ye each seek to know - or many do - as to what will be the outcome of those activities in Europe, in Africa, in Asia.
25. ALL will be broken up, - yea, all will seem as but naught; yet as they who pray live like they pray, there may come healing as THIS people, this company, - yea, this land, - gives that hope, increases that faith by their LIVING, not hating; by their LOVING, not despising, that which is good.
26. Let that mind be in you, then, as in Christ Jesus, who thought it not robbery to make Himself equal with God, yet went about - everywhere, day by day - doing good; not "doing others" but doing good to others.
27. He is the way, the truth, the light. There is no other.
28. We are through.

BACKGROUND

1. 5/01/40 See 254-106, Par. 8-A--12-A re. advisability of seeking 3976-25.

REPORTS

1. 12/11/71 See Source File Key #3976 for Ledger-Star note about the printing of "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency re 3976-25.
2. 2/14/73 See Source File Key #3976 for Ledger-Star note about the history of the U.S. motto "In God We Trust" re 3976-25.

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