This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 27th day of June, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. Thomas Sugrue, Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Tom and Mary Sugrue, and Hugh Lynn Cayce.

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1. GC: You will have before you the entity Thomas Sugrue, present in this room, seeking the life of the Master and its history in the material world. Then you will answer the questions he submits, as I ask them.
2. EC: Yes, we have the entity, Thomas Sugrue; the desires, the purposes for the desire to know the material history of the life of the Master in the material world.
3. Much might be given as to how or why and when there were the purposes that brought about the materialization of Jesus in the flesh.
4. In giving then the history: There were those in the faith of the fathers to whom the promises were given that these would be fulfilled as from the beginning of man's record.
5. Hence there was the continued preparation and dedication of those who might be the channels through which this chosen vessel might enter - through choice - into materiality.
6. Thus in Carmel - where there were the priests of this faith - there were the maidens chosen that were dedicated to this purpose, this office, this service.
7. Among them was Mary, the beloved, the chosen one; and she, as had been foretold, was chosen as the channel. Thus she was separated and kept in the closer associations with and in the care or charge of this office.
8. That was the beginning, that was the foundation of what ye term the Church.
9. Then, when the days were fulfilled that the prophecy might come that had been given by Isaiah, Malachi, Joel and those of old, she - Mary, espoused to Joseph - a chosen vessel for the office among those of the priests, the sect or group who had separated and dedicated themselves in body, in mind, in spirit for this coming became with child.
10. Then, as the record is given, that is the common knowledge of most, there was born in Bethlehem of Judea that entity, that soul, Jesus.
11. There was the period of purification according to the law, and then the days in the temple and the blessing by Anna and by the high priest.
12. And these made for those days of the beginning of the entity called Jesus - who becomes the Christ, the Master of Masters - in the days when there was the return to Nazareth and then the edict that sent them into Egypt that the prophecy was fulfilled, "My son shall be called from Egypt."
13. There five years were spent, as ye term time - by the mother, Joseph, and the child.
14. Then there was the return to Judea and to Capernaum, where dwelt many of those who were later the closer companions of the Master.
15. Here, after the period again of presentation at the temple, when there were those questionings among the groups of the leaders, the entity then was sent first - again - into Egypt for only a short period, and then into India, and then into what is now Persia.
16. Hence in all the ways of the teachers the entity was trained.
17. From Persia he was called to Judea at the death of Joseph, and then into Egypt for the completion of the preparation as a teacher.
18. He was with John, the messenger, during the portion of the training there in Egypt.
19. Then to Capernaum, Cana, and those periods of the first preparation in the land of the nativity.
20. The rest ye have according to Mark, John, Matthew and Luke; these in their order record most of the material experiences of the Master.
21. Many of details may be given in the varied fields of the preparation, but these were the experiences.
22. Ready for questions.
23. (Q) Explain the immaculate conception.
    (A) As flesh is the activity of the mental being (or the spiritual self and mental being) pushing itself into matter, and as spirit - as He gave - is neither male nor female, they are then both - or one.
    And when man had reached that period of the full separation from Creative Forces in the spirit, then flesh as man knows it today became in material plane a reality.
    Then, the immaculate conception is the physical and mental so attuned to spirit as to be quickened by same.
    Hence the spirit, the soul of the Master then was brought into being through the accord of the Mother in materiality that ye know in the earth as conception.
24. (Q) Explain the relationship of the Wise Men and Jesus' birth?
    (A) As indicated by the travels of the Master during the periods of preparation, the whole earth, the whole world looked for, sought the closer understanding. Hence through the efforts of the students of the various phases of experiences of man in the earth, as may be literally interpreted from the first chapters of Genesis, ye find that those that subdued - not that were ruled by, but subdued the understandings of that in the earth - were considered, or were in the position of the wise, or the sages, or the ones that were holy; in body and mind, in accord with purposes.
    Hence we find the Wise Men as those that were seekers for the truth, for this happening; and in and through the application of those forces - as ye would term today psychic - we find them coming to the place "where the child was." Or they were drawn as those that were giving the thanks for this Gift, this expression of a soul seeking to show wayward man back to God.
    So they represent in the metaphysical sense the three phases of man's experience in materiality; gold, the material; frankincense, the ether or ethereal; myrrh, the healing force as brought with same; or body, mind, soul.
    These were the positions then of the Wise Men in their relationship, or to put into the parlance of the day - they were the encouragement needed for the Mother and those that had nourished, that had cherished this event in the experience of mankind.
    They came during the days of purification, but to be sure only after she was purified were they presented to the Child.
25. (Q) What relation did they have with the later travels of Jesus?
    (A) As has just been indicated, they represented then the three phases of man's experience as well as the three phases of the teacher from Egypt, from Persia, from India.
26. (Q) Did Mary and Joseph have any other children?
    (A) James, Jude, and the daughter.
27. (Q) Does the immaculate conception, as explained, concern the coming of Mary to Anne, or Jesus to Mary?
    (A) Of Jesus to Mary.
28. (Q) Was Mary immaculately conceived?
    (A) Mary was immaculately conceived. [See 2067-11, Par. 9-A.]
29. (Q) How long was the preparation in progress before Mary was chosen?
    (A) Three years.
30. (Q) In what manner was she chosen?
    (A) As they walked up the steps!
31. (Q) Was there any appearance of the angel Gabriel in the home?
    (A) In the temple when she was chosen, in the home of Elizabeth when she was made aware of the presence by being again in the presence of the messenger or forerunner.
    Again to Joseph at the time of their union. Again (by Michael) at the time when the edict was given.
32. We are through for the present.
33. We would continue.

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