This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 21st day of October, 1937, in accordance with request made by the Manager of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., on Sponsored Research Fund of Thomas Sugrue for Readings on Palestine.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Hugh Lynn Cayce.

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the period of the life of the Master as Jesus in Palestine, especially as related to incident of the woman taken in adultery, John 8:3-11; in which Jesus asked the one without sin to cast the first stone and then stooped and wrote on the ground. Also consider in relation to this the information given through this channel for [295] on August 31, 1933 describing this incident and also the information given for [1436] on August 30, 1937 which seems to describe the same incident. Please clarify this seeming duplication. Answer questions.
2. EC: Yes, we have the period that is indicated in the experience of the earth, of the temple, of the peoples; and that as related to the individuals whose experiences were in that portion of that period.
3. In the interpretations, all the conditions that surrounded the period should be taken into consideration.
4. The variations in those particular incidents are apparently the same, yet the individuality is different in the two incidents.
5. Those were periods when there were those who questioned the Master as in the sect of the Pharisees. There were those who questioned when they were led by the Sadducees. There were others when questioned by those in the Roman authority.
6. There were, then, two individual experiences when He was questioned as to the law as related to that given by Moses respecting those taken in adultery.
7. The one about which the first information was given was the associate of John and James; while the last one was the associate of the Roman soldiery. And the questions in each instance were by the different sects of peoples.
8. These are overlapping in the records that are given (or that you have); though in the original they are given as two different experiences.
9. Ready for questions.
10. (Q) Which one was [1436]?
    (A) The one taken in the act with the Roman soldiery, and questioned by the Sadducee peoples; while the other [295] was the sister of Martha, and hence the associate (or cohort) of those that were the disciples or Apostles later.
11. (Q) In which instance did Jesus stoop and write?
    (A) In each; in each of these. In one that written was as given, "Medi (?) Medici (?) [Cui?]" or the expression of mercy and not sacrifice which showed to those that looked on the individual awakening of the entity. In the other that written was that which made the accusers recognize their OWN activities.
12. (Q) Is there any other history of the period that we may have at this point?
    (A) Which portion is sought? We have most all of it here! Most any portion may be given!
    The incident about which the last information was given, [1436] through this channel, occurred AFTER there had been the reuniting of Martha, Lazarus and Mary; while the first incident [295] occurred in the earlier portions of His ministry.
    For as given, the incident of Magdala [295] - or Mary the sister of Martha - occurred when the individual had set about what would be called now a home for, or a retreat for, those who sought to use and give their bodies to those activities for the indulgences and for the gaining of information of various sorts or natures through such activities of the individuals.
    But the latter individual, [1436] as we have indicated in that given, was only guilty of SELF indulgence and with the Romans and not those in authority in the various groups or activities.
13. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Thomas Sugrue
    Copy to Helene Zentgraf
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See 295-1 on 12/23/29, 295-8 on 8/31/33, and 1436-2 on 8/30/37.

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