Edgar Cayce left behind one of the largest and most impressive collections of psychic information ever to emanate from a single source. Today, thousands of people around the world continue to find help through his enduring legacy.
The following Edgar Cayce readings have been selected by Charles Davidson as being particularly helpfull and inspiring to him.
1861–4
Each soul was in its first division from the Godhead to a companion with that force, that influence, that purpose. Hence the purpose is to grow in grace, knowledge, understanding for the indwelling of that presence.
518–2
First, the entering of every soul is that it, the soul, may become more and more aware or conscious of the divine within.…
What…was the purpose for which ye entered in at this particular experience? That ye might know the Lord and His goodness the more in thine inner self.
1206–13
What is good? How is such defined in thy life—of awakening to all the possibilities that exist in thy intake of life and its phases? To do good is to think constructively, to think creatively. What is creative, what is constructive, ye may ask? That which never hinders, which never makes for the bringing of any harm to others. These bring then the memories, the ability to recall.
1201–2
And bad is only good gone wrong, or going away from God.
2329–1
However, there should not be judgements other than as of the spiritual nature or value, and not as to anyone's moral code, but as to purpose of same.
3027–2
Q–1 Has any progress been made in the last 2 or 3 incarnations?
A–1 There is progress whether you are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
Q–2 What progress or retrogression have I made during this present life?
A–2 No one may be the judge of that ye have chosen. Do right!
1193–1
…know that there is so much good in the life of each and every soul attempting in any manner to give expressions of itself, its ideals being manifested in its life, whether it is aware of same or not.
2823–1
Thus the knowledge, the understanding, the interpretation of life, lies within thine own self.…
2823–3
For each entity in the earth is what it is because of what it has been. And each moment is dependent on another moment.
257–128
Q–In what manner can I further improve my spiritual development?
A–…you only need to look into self and be honest, fair and square with self.…
257–128
Q–I now request advice and constructive criticism for me again to be able to meet all conditions imposed by God and my fellow man.
A–This is the greatest trouble of most my friend, in saying that conditions are imposed by God when they are the demands of errors committed in self!…if…thou givest out peace and harmony, then the fruits of the spirit are the results; not imposed by God but the actual results of the endeavors in self as to what thou doest in regard to thy relationships to thy God and to thy fellow man.
3508–1
God moved , the spirit came into activity. In the moving it brought light, and then chaos. In this light came creation of that which in the Earth came to be called matter.
323–2
Truth is as life, a growing consciousness in self.
1297–1
Truth is as growth! For what is truth today may be tomorrow only partially so to a developing soul.
1436–3
Q–What is wrong about my personality that is holding me back?
A–Nothing, save the proper evaluation of the value of experiences of every nature in their proper sphere of activity and relationships.…
These extremes indicate just as we have given improper valuation of the experience.… Know that Life is God; Life in self is God,… For as ye do it untoothers ye are doing it to the God in yourself.
1440–1
For ye are indeed a God in the making, and He would have you as one with him.
254–42
The spirit is the life, the mind is the builder and the physical is the result.
1463–3
Q–What is karmic debt?
A–This ye have made a bugaboo! This ye have overbalanced within thyself!What is thy life but the gift of thy maker that ye may be wholely one with HIM? Thy relations to thy fellows through the various experiences in the earth come to be then in the light of what Creative Forces would be in relationship to the act itself! And whether it be as individual activities to those who have individualized as thy father, thy mother, thy brother or the like, or others, it is merely self being met in relationships to that they themselves are working out and not a karmic debt between but a karmic debt of self that may be worked out between the associations that exist in the present. And this is true for every soul. If ye will but take that as was given thee! "Neither do I condemn thee - neither do I condemn thee."
2995–1
Know that all the Creative Force ye may become aware of is within thine own self. For, as thy body is indeed the temple of the living God, there he has promised to meet thee.
262–23
For as has been given all we see manifest in a material world is but a reflection or a shadow of the real or the spiriual life.
1159–1
Q–Please explain the vision I had regarding being shown a vein of gold and an oil deposit near Woodward's Chimney Corner, Lamb's Spring, Texas.
A–Be these…as influences that arise as emblems in thine own experience, that are a gold precious to the very souls of men, rather than material things? While the material things exist, to thee and to thine own they be emblematical experience. For the angels of light only use material things for emblems, while the angels of death use these as lures that may carry men's souls away. For the Master gave, "There is a way that seemeth right to the hearts of men, but the end thereofis death and confusion."
3063–1
This is the first lesson ye should learn: There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us.
633–5
That there are in the present the physical, the mental, the material disturbances is apparant. But much of these arise from self condemnation.… Hence the body mentally becomes super sensitive.
3004–1
First analyze thyself. Know thyself. For he indeed that knows himself knows his God also.
340–15
Q–What can this body do or study to have a better vision of life and make a better helpmate to her husband and to humanity?
A–Study the book of life as found in human experience and study self first—as this: Make for self— as is the intent in every act—rote: as why this relationship, why that relationship! Analyze same and you will see yourself as plain as looking in a mirror.
342–1
Q–Inasmuch as I am interested in occult subjects and wish to increase my knowledge as well as to spread the knowledge of this work, I should be grateful for advice as to how to become more perfect in it and whom I should know to help me do this.
A–The first and foremost, and the best—know self, and self's relation to the maker; for this is the beginning of wisdom, the beginning of understanding.… Begin with the psychology of thy own relationships with children, and of the house, of business, of business associations.…
The fear that comes always begins within.…
1861–4
…yet the entity must adhere to that which is the ideal. For, that is the way and the truth and the light.
2329–1
What, then, is thy ideal…? Are they ever creative and constructive in the experience of self and others?…
For does it bring appreciation of beauty.…
281–13
Meditation…properly done must make one stronger mentally, physically…for ye are raising in meditation actual creation taking place within the inner self!…prayer is the making of one’s conscious self more in attune with the spiritual forces that may manifest in a material world.…
3333–1
For, ever in the flesh and the spirit, MIND is the builder.
1747–5
As is understood then Father-God is as the body, or the whole. Mind is as the Christ, which is the way. The Holy Spirit is as the soul or in material interpretation—purposes, hopes, desires.…
2427–1
Hence we find, as the Son represents the mind of self, it is necessary then that each soul choose the being of one mind with him—who thought it not robbery to make himself equal with God and hath called to everyone, "Be ye perfect, even as my father in heaven is perfect."
3841–1
To be helpful for others, such must first be accomplished in self. Do not ask others to do that ye cannot demonstrate in thine own self.
3098–2
According to the true law of spirit, like begets like. Thus as harmony and beauty and grace reign within the consciousness of an entity, it gives that to others and others wonder what moved them to feel different, when no one spoke.… This is the manner in which the spirit of truth operates among the childrenof men.… Individuals who live such lives, then, and with all the emotions of nature and of the material world are indeed those who may be called the children of the holy one.
2936–2
Learn this lesson well—the spiritual truth: Criticize not unless ye wish to criticized. …ye cannot even think bad of another without it affecting thee.…Try to see self in the other's place. This will bringthe basic spiritual forces that must be the prompting influence in the experience of each soul, if it would grow in grace, in knowledge, in understanding; … For know that the Lord thy God is One. All ye may know ofGod must be manifested through thyself.
3335-1
Meet the problems of the day in the light of thy desires as thy Father-God would meet thee with thy own shortcomings.… Meet these problems in thy relationships to others—no, not through being idealistic, but make thy relationship to God practical in thy relationship to thy fellowman.
254 - 68
Feed, then, upon the fruits of the spirit, love, hope, joy, mercy, longsuffering, brotherly love, and the contact will be seen; and within the consciousness of the soul will the awareness come of the personality of God.…
Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993, 1994, 1995 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation. All rights reserved.
