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TRANSITION - Part 2
READING 1408-2 PARAPHRASED
This reading addresses the circumstances surrounding the death of [1408] on June 8, 1937, and is offered to bring understanding and comfort to her family—especially her daughter, who requested the reading.
The life she lived stands as a powerful example of Christian faith, strength, patience, and love. It would be selfish to wish that events had turned out differently, for in divine wisdom her life itself was meant to leave a lasting example for those she loved. Through her patience, courage, and endurance, she showed how to live attentively and lovingly toward family and others.
Her physical body had grown deeply weary from the burdens and responsibilities of daily life. The heart—so open and giving to the needs of her family and all who knew her—became exhausted. Because of this great weariness, the physical breakdown occurred there. In God’s mercy, the separation of body and soul was allowed so that her spirit could rest peacefully in the presence of her Savior, Jesus.
Her passing was caused physically by a congestion of the arteries between the heart and the liver. Years of hardship and strain accumulated until the body could no longer carry the load.
As for what she would wish to say to her family:
To her husband: Watch carefully over your son and keep the family united. Strength will come through shared purpose and togetherness.
To the eldest daughter: Continue the nurturing care you have always given, like a faithful shepherd watching over the flock.
To the second daughter: Make caring for the home your mission for now. Keep it a place of stability for your father, brother, and youngest sister.
To the third daughter: Hold fast to the spiritual truths you have been taught, even when corrected or guided. These are the sources of peace and joy.
To her son: Look after your father and be his support. If it feels right within you, prepare yourself through education for life’s work—but above all, take care of him.
To the youngest child: Let your older sisters guide and protect you. Learn from their experience, avoid life’s pitfalls, and remain faithful to what is good.
Finally, may God’s blessing, shown through the love of Christ, guide each of you through life’s hardships—through sorrow, disappointment, and loss. Even in dark moments, know that God is near and will hold you by the hand.
READING 1408-2 EXPLAINED
Reading 1408-2 was given after the death of 1408, at the request of her daughter, and is meant primarily to comfort, interpret, and guide the family, rather than to diagnose or treat. It addresses three main levels: spiritual meaning, physical cause of death, and family guidance.
1. Purpose of the Reading
The reading is not focused on predicting events or changing outcomes. Instead, it frames the death as meaningful and purposeful, discouraging regret or resistance. It emphasizes that wishing for a different outcome would miss the lesson her life was meant to teach.
In this sense, the reading functions as grief counseling in spiritual language—helping the family interpret loss in a way that affirms faith, continuity, and responsibility.
2. Spiritual Interpretation of Her Death
Spiritually, the reading presents her life as an example of Christian endurance. Her qualities—patience, courage, self-sacrifice, and love—are emphasized more than her suffering.
Her death is explained as an act of divine mercy, not punishment or failure:
Her soul is described as being allowed to “rest”
The separation of body and soul is framed as peaceful
Christ is emphasized as personally receiving her
The underlying message is that her work on Earth was completed, and that continuing to live under such strain would have served no higher purpose.
3. Physical Cause of Death (as Given in the Reading)
Physically, the reading attributes her death to arterial congestion between the heart and liver. This aligns with earlier health descriptions in Reading 1408-1, which emphasized:
Circulatory overload
Blood congestion
Chronic strain
Lower-body venous issues
Rather than a sudden, random event, the reading presents death as the final result of long-term exhaustion, where accumulated “dregs” of hardship became too heavy for the system.
Importantly, this explanation reframes the doctor’s diagnosis of a “heart attack” into a broader systemic failure tied to chronic overwork and emotional burden.
4. Emphasis on Weariness, Not Disease
A key theme is weariness rather than illness. The reading does not portray her as sick in a conventional sense but as overburdened:
Emotionally
Physically
Nervously
Spiritually devoted beyond bodily limits
Her heart is symbolic as well as literal—described as open, giving, and constantly responding to others’ needs until it could no longer do so.
5. Messages to Family Members
The individualized messages serve two purposes:
To replace her role in the family structure
To preserve unity and moral continuity
Each family member is assigned a role that mirrors her influence:
Unity and guidance (husband)
Caretaking and protection (daughters)
Responsibility and maturity (son)
Moral formation (youngest child)
This helps prevent emotional collapse by redistributing responsibility and giving each person purpose after her death.
6. Psychological and Emotional Function
On a human level, the reading:
Validates the family’s grief
Removes guilt (“nothing more could have been done”)
Counters fear that her death was sudden or meaningless
Reinforces faith during shock and disbelief
It also gently discourages dependency on further questioning by presenting the message as complete and sufficient.
7. Overall Meaning
Reading 1408-2 presents death not as tragedy alone, but as:
The completion of a life of service
A release from overwhelming strain
A transition rather than an end
A call for the living to continue her values
Its core lesson is continuation: her influence persists through how the family lives, cares for one another, and remains faithful.
ORIGINAL READING 1408-2
GC: You will have before you the circumstances and conditions surrounding the death of [1408], ..., Penna., June 8, 1937; together with the various members of her family and the questions resulting from her sudden death; especially the questions of [...], her daughter, who requests a Reading on these conditions. You will give that which may be helpful to the family at this time and answer the questions which they have presented.
EC: Yes, we have those circumstances and conditions attending the separation of the body and soul of [1408].
In giving that as would be helpful and constructive in the experience of each member of this family:
As has been so aptly said, her life, her work, her love, is an example of Christian faith and fortitude.
Hence for those that wait:
It would be selfish to wish or desire conditions to be different. For in His wisdom He hath seen fit to leave - in the love as was manifested in the life - an example for each; in patience, in courage, in forbearance; in keeping a watchful, careful attention on the lives of each of the family.
The body was so tired from the cares of the material world that the physical reactions were in the heart; that had been so ready to open itself to the needs of each, not only of the family but to all that knew, that even were acquainted with the body.
Yet it grew so weary with these cares that He, in His love, saw fit to let the separation come; that the soul might in peace REST in the arms of Him who is her Savior - JESUS!
Hence you each should take the lesson of that courage, of that patience, of that forbearance, of that longsuffering, as a part of YOUR own lives; and let it become - as she manifested - the EXPERIENCE of the everyday life, in the dealings and in the associations with the fellow man.
The physical condition that wrought the change was the engorgement of the arteries between the heart and the liver. The dregs of hardships, of trials, became heavy.
As to the message that she would leave, that she would give to each:
To [269]: Keep a watchful eye upon [...] [son], and keep the children together in their varied experiences; for in the union of purpose is there strength for all.
To [...] [1st daughter]: Keep the care that has been given thee, even as a good shepherdess watching over the flock, even as He has shown in His ways.
To [...] [2nd daughter]: Care for the home. Let that be thy part, thy mission, now. When there are the changes that are natural to come, these then will be a share of another; but keep thou the home for Papa, for [son], for [...] [Baby - 4th daughter].
To [...] [3rd daughter]: Let those things wherein oft reproved, oft directed, be kept in that loving faith that has been thy outlook upon life. For hold fast to the things that bespeak of the true spiritual life; for in these ye find peace and happiness and joy.
To [...] [son]: Attend thy father's needs. Be his right hand. If it is in keeping with thy inner self, prepare thy ways in the preparations in school for the activities of life itself. But look after him.
To the BABY [...]: Let [...], [...] and [...] [3 older sisters], keep watchful care with thee. Know, as is in the experience of those that have lived and know the pitfalls; know those things that make one weary, but hold fast to that which is good.
And may the blessings of the Father, through the love as shown in the Christ, guide each of you. Through the vicissitudes of life, through all the shadows, through all the disappointments, through all the sorrows, know He is near - and will hold thee by the hand.
We are through.
