This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 21st day of January, 1926, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [5453].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the reading given on [5453], December 17, 1925, also the body of [5453], of ... Audit Co., ..., Florida, and the conditions and incidents relative to the body subsequent to that time, and will answer the questions regarding this body that I will ask you.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, we have the information as given here. Ready for questions.
3. (Q) Would it be best for this body to return to ..., Ohio?
   (A) No.
4. (Q) Is this body in danger physically, through the mental strain it has been under?
   (A) Under ANY physical strain and mental strain, physical body ever in danger. The conditions as surround the body, the mental attitude of the body is better at the present time than that as we had here before. The mental strain is in the way of, in a manner, being relieved. Then, for the confidence in self, that as has been outlined for the body; well that entity continue in personal efforts, and thereby make for self the way clear as to the manifesting of self's abilities, to bring about the manifestation in physical acts for physical condition of the body, and for self, the better that this keep in that attitude as has been in the last three - four weeks.
5. (Q) What should the body do to aright present conditions?
   (A) By physical and mental effort, by keeping in that way and manner as the entity knows is the way to bring these conditions in that way of being arighted, see? with condemnation for none, and least of all, condemnation for self, but through perseverance, through using that force as is in hand, keep in the way that will bring the better conditions for self, and through same aright those. We see a change for the body coming, see?
6. (Q) About when will this change come?
   (A) Two to three weeks. Then again in about three months.
7. We are through with this reading.

BACKGROUND

1. See 5453-7.

REPORTS

1. 1/29/26 Letter expressed appreciation, stating that he was in much better mental and physical condition, more optimistic about the future. He also referred a friend [4220] for a Physical Rdg.
   [GD's note: Letters passed back and forth between Mr. [5453] and EC. He told of his satisfaction in his work. As soon as school was out his wife and young son returned to Florida to live with him.]
2. 1/27 EC visited them while he was in Florida.
3. 3/14/27 Mr. [5453] obtained his son's Life Reading. See 5454-3.
4. 8/09/27 He referred Mr. [4145] for a Physical and Life Rdg.
5. 2/29/28 Letter poured out his heart to EC re. his wife [2790] leaving with another man, taking the son with her.
6. 3/05/28 EC's letter to [5453]:
   Monday afternoon
   My dear Mr. [5453]:
   Yours of the 29th received. If I only could just sit down and talk with you, I feel like it would be a whole lot different! I'm sure you know - from what I have told you from time to time - I know how to appreciate what you have told me. To say that I am sorry would be putting it too mildly. To say that I had expected it would be untrue - though I had feared it from what you told me years ago, then from the reading - if you remember the Life Reading [2790-2]; and when such things come up - and there have been warnings given in readings that we have questioned at times in our own minds - My gosh! I just don't know what to say! I know how you have felt - but please, please, for those here even that love you, hold on to yourself! Be a man - and though the world is so dark, and everything in the world seems gone to pot, the ones you have trusted the most have failed you, then to see your own blood being treated in any such way, I know it's more than you feel like you can bear - and I know you're not going to put up with it - but don't do anything rash - don't judge too harshly - and KEEP HOLD OF YOURSELF! because, remember, there ARE those that love you - and you HAVE got work to do, and you have got your own soul to take care of! and your boy's welfare to look out for. As to whether you should forgive and forget, that is within your own heart and soul. The Master forgave. We can do as little. As for forgetting, of course you can't - but you can put it out of your mind and heart as much as possible for your boy's sake. That DO if it lies within your power! For your own self and for his sake, you MUST hold on - and don't forget that there will be those praying for you and loving you, that believe in you, and know that you can stand the test that even is as by fire that cannot be quenched! for I know you are living through hell itself, but you can come through - if you will just HOLD ON and trust in that that is Right!
7. 5/13/28 Mr. [5453]'s letter: "It seems that the seeming love for someone else was too strong and so about 3 weeks ago [2790] took [5454] and went back to ... The only thing that was left for me to do in order that [5454]'s life in the future would be as it should I have filed suit for divorce...asking in the bill of complaint for his custody. I looked up [5454]'s Life Reading and I wish you would get out your file copy and read it over. It is beyond doubt the most wonderful thing I've ever known of. If everything is not down in black and white in that reading then you have never given a reading, see? Every line reveals more and more the conditions and just see how it has all come out. If only I had had a better understanding at the time."
   [GD's note: [5453] did get custody but the child spent his summers with his mother. Both parents later married again, [5453] first and some years later [2790].]
8. 7/04/28 Mr. [5453] secured a Physical Rdg. for Mrs. [4418].
9. 4/18/29, 5/20/29 Mr. [5453] obtained check physicals for his son [5454].
10. 5/30/29 He obtained his own next physical reading - 5453-9.

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