Reading 3976-28

TEXT OF READING 3976-28

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Date: 6/20/1943 Sex: F ReadingID: 11654

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 20th day of June, 1943, before the Twelfth Annual Congress of the Association, in accordance with request made by those present.

[Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Evelyn Hoag; David, Lucille, S. David and Richard Kahn; Kathryn Baird, Elsie Sechrest, Frank and Margaret Klepper, Beatrice and Richmond Seay, Mildred Tansey, Esther Wynne, Kathryn Patterson, Elizabeth Krohn, Marsden Godfrey, Malcolm H. Allen, Lane Mellinger, Florence Edmonds, Beverly and Riley Simmons, Mae Verhoeven, Louis and Marguerite A. Poss, Ruth Holland, Edgar and Ethel Parry, Frances Y. Morrow, Hannah and Noah Miller, Ruth and Jeanne LeNoir, Eulalie Scott, Xenobia Welch, Gladys Dillman, Jane Williams, and others - including Hugh Lynn Cayce.]

Time of Reading 3:45 to 4:10 P. M. Eastern War Time.

1. GC: You will have before you the conditions in the world today, and that needed by those seeking advice in helping to construct a permanent basis for international peace founded upon understanding of one another’s economic, social and spiritual problems. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:

2. EC: Yes, we have - as we have had before - those problems which have brought about the upheavals and the wars, the distrust, the jealousy, the hate existing today. These are the result of man’s forgetting God, and that which truly represents man’s sincere attempt to worship, honor and glorify a living God.

3. For this may only be done in the manner in which individuals, states, nations, treat their fellow man. For, as ye do unto others, ye do to thy Maker. And when those activities are such as to dishonor thy fellow man, ye dishonor thy God - and it brings all of those forms of disturbance that exist in the world today.

4. As for the individuals here, - peace must begin within self before there may be the activity or the application of self in such a manner as to bring peace in thine own household, in thine own heart, in thine own vicinity, in thine own state or nation. And only one agreement: Worship God in a manner that is in keeping with the dictates of thy conscience.

5. Thus, - nothing new, nothing strange; yet on Friday next strange things will happen, that will determine as to how long, as to how many, as to what will be necessary [See 3976-28, Par. R1]. These are thoughts and activities of men, but are as the mind and the body in the individual. When there has been rebellion in the body of sufficient of the cells to set up resistance, illness begins.

6. When there has been in the earth those groups that have sufficiently desired and sought peace, peace will begin. It must be within self.

7. The same is true in economic conditions. He that saith he loveth God and seeth his neighbor in need of food or a coat, and saith “Go in peace - God be with thee,” and does nothing about same, is a liar and a thief, wherever he may be; is false to self and will one day create those things that will bring discontent and disputations in the earth.

8. Ready for questions.

9. (Q) Is there any indication of the time at which hostilities will cease between this country and Italy, Germany? Japan? (A) These are [dependent on] the thoughts and principles of men. They will be able to determine much as regards more than one, by the 25th of June. [Decisions in re labor unions? See EC’s letter under 1561-21, Par. R11 on 11/22/43. See also 3976-28, Par R1.]

10. (Q) Could a suggestion be made as to the major problems which will confront us in the making of the peace? (A) Differences of opinions in the different religious groups, as well as the economic conditions in the varied land, will be those things that will cause greater disputations.

As for this own land, more turmoils will be in and following peace - not immediate - than there are in the present. These will be turmoils from within. Lack of godliness in the hearts of some of those that direct the affairs of groups.

11. (Q) What could our own country be doing toward equalizing opportunities for trade among the nations immediately following the war? (A) In some quarters too much is being done already! These are the things over which many disputes will arise. But there must first come some basis for an economic situation in ALL lands, in those that are a part of the united effort against what is called aggression, as well as the conditions in those lands over which those devastating activities have come in every form. Food, clothing, and all of those things that make the heart of man - as man - afraid.

12. (Q) Will we move toward a lowered tariff? (A) In many directions, yes.

13. (Q) Will it be possible to maintain a fair standard of living for our own people while helping to raise economic standards in other parts of the world? (A) Not only MUST it be possible, it MUST be DONE! if there will be ANY lasting peace! But it must begin in the hearts and minds of individuals. For it is as just given. As the vital cells of the body - when they have rebelled, and caused sufficient others to do likewise, destruction sets in.

14. (Q) Would it be feasible to work out an international currency, or an international stabilization of exchange values? (A) This, too, will be worked toward. It will be a long, long time before established. There may indeed be another war over just such conditions, but it’ll be a step in the right direction - in the attempts in bringing peace at this time.

15. (Q) How might we cooperate in setting up an international police force in such fashion that our recent enemies will not be antagonized? (A) These have expected same, and unless some such IS created, they will ever feel they have won the war, no matter how much they declare their willingness to quit!

16. (Q) Can the re-education of the German people in the principles of democracy be conducted in such fashion that their own cooperation will be enlisted? How? (A) This depends upon from what standard. Who would set the standard for the democratic education of a Germany who considers itself ALREADY more wise than all the democracies! Rather teach them GOD, and how to search and find Him, and apply His principles in dealing with their fellow man.

17. (Q) Should educational materials be prepared ahead of time, and if so by what sort of representative group? (A) We do not find this altogether feasible, without there having already been preconceived ideas by those who set themselves up as little gods to tell the others what to do. This is not democracy. But teach them God, and first, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God as thyself, and thy neighbor as thyself, with thy heart, with thy mind, with thy purpose.” But so long as there is the gospel sent with the jug and a bullet, you will not teach them God.

18. (Q) Since we are fighting for the freedom of all races, what suggestions could you give us toward effecting greater equality of opportunity for minority groups in our own country? (A) As indicated in the first, all groups must have their representation and their privileges, that they - too - may have the opportunity. Unless we begin within our own selves and our own household, we are false to ourselves and to the principles that we attempt to declare. By setting classes or masses against other groups, - this is NOT brotherly love.

19. (Q) Would it be wise at this time, before hostilities cease, for the United States to rescind the Japanese exclusion act in favor of proportionate immigration such as we permit from other countries? (A) WHO made me judge over my fellow man? When ye do, ye have given away half thy land!

20. (Q) Could you suggest any other move which would help to validate our immediate international good will? (A) How was international good will described with such as in the land of the Hittites and the Hivites? This is a good judgement. Better let ‘em come again! [Josh. 9; Josh. 11] [Euthanasia? Reincarnation?]

21. We are through for the present.

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 1/67 Stern’s SLEEPING PROPHET pp.92—94:

EDGAR CAYCE - THE SLEEPING PROPHET - WORLD PROPHECIES

Browsing through the A.R.E. library, I had stumbled across a Cayce reading on World Affairs, June 20, 1943, at the height of World War II. Unusual even for Cayce, it pinpointed an event of a decisive nature within a few days. Cayce, speaking of peace, generally, suddenly particularized: “On Friday next, strange things will happen which will determine how long, how many and what will be necessary.”

Could it be a portent of the war? What else? But the war, as I recalled clearly, had lasted another two years.

Cayce was then asked: “Is there any indication of the time at which hostilities will cease between this country and Italy, Germany, Japan?”

Again, he mentioned a period in late June, as a possible turning point.

“These are in thoughts and principles of men. They will be able to determine a great deal in respect to more than once of these countries by the 25th of June.”

Cayce evidently was pointing to an action stemming out of thoughts already established; and an interpretation obviously required some insight into these minds. I thumbed inquiringly through almanacs and encyclopedias, but found nothing of significance for late June of 1943.

I worked late at the A.R.E. library, poring over the Cayce files, and retired to my hotel after midnight. Despite the hour, I decided to relax over a copy of Barbarossa, an authoritative account of the Russian-German conflict by the Englishman Alan Clark. Barbarossa was the German code name for the Russian invasion, begun so optimistically by Hitler on June 22, 1941.

I soon came to a chapter, “The Greatest Tank Battle in History,” describing a titanic struggle, with masses of men and machines arrayed against each other on a broad front around Kursk. The pick of the German military, directed by Hitler himself, was there: Keitel, von Kluge, Manstein, Model, Hoth, Guderian. By itself, “Hoth’s 4th Panzer army was the strongest force ever put under a single commander in the German Army.” The Russians, too, had the cream of their military available: Marshal Zhukov, the Soviet hero, who had never lost a battle; Vasilievski, Sokolovski, Coniev, Popov. The German operation was so vast that it had its own code name: Zitadelle. It seemed good reading to drowse off with, and then my eye suddenly stopped. “Certainly, by any standard other than that of the Soviet formations opposing them,” Clark wrote, “the German order of battle, as it finally took shape in the ‘last day of June, 1943,’ looked very formidable.”

A tiny chill went up my spine, as I read on: “In the last days before the attack a ‘strange’ feeling, not so much of confidence as of fatalism, pervaded the german tank forces - if this strength, this enormous agglomeration that surrounded them on every side, could not break the Russians, then nothing would.”

The author and Cayce, it struck me, had even used the same word to describe the mood of the gathering action. The word was “strange”.

The action was critical enough to warrant a special message from the Fuehrer: “Soldiers of the Reich! This day you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of the war may depend on its outcome. More than anything else, your victory will show the whole world that resistance to the power of the German Army is hopeless.”

The reverse was also true, and the Russians were more than ready. Everywhere, the Germans were pushed back. Meanwhile, in another theater, “other thoughts and principles” were to affect the fighting in Russia. The Allies had mounted their invasion of Italy. The German action, already in trouble, now faced diversion of its main striking force. “Hitler,” Clark related, “sent for Manstein and Kluge and told them that the operation should be cancelled forthwith. The allies had landed in Sicily and there was a danger of Italy’s being knocked out. Kluge agreed that it was impossible to continue.”

Cayce had been asked about Italy, Germany and Japan, and he had said that more would be known “in respect to more than one of these countries, by the twenty-fifth of June.” The attack on Italy had been thought out, mounted, and a date fixed at that time, though the actual thrust was not made from North Africa until early July.

How decisive was Zitadelle in the final outcome of the war - all decisive, according to the most astute of the Nazis, Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler. “One member of the Nazi hierarchy, at all events, was not deluded,” Clark observed, “Heinrich Himmler saw that the failure of the Zitadelle offensive meant that the war was lost. The question which now exercised him was how to moderate defeat and save his own skin.”

Cayce had observed, “There is nothing new, nothing strange.” It was apparently all part of a universal order in which there was no such thing as chance, even to picking a paperback named ‘Barbarossa’ off the rack of a Virginia Beach drugstore.

Background

Background

None.

Mentioned Entities

Germany, Russia, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Japan, Gladys Davis, King David, Prophets, Virginia Beach, Africa, David Kahn, Earth Changes, Gertrude Cayce, Hugh Lynn Cayce, Jess Stearn, Mount Ararat, Purpose, Reincarnation, Zacharias and Elizabeth

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 3976-28, ReadingID 11654.