How the Soul Lives Through the Body: Edgar Cayce's Understanding of the Endocrine System

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The Edgar Cayce readings on the endocrine system are not really about hormones or glands in the modern medical sense. Beneath all the discussions of conception, heredity, emotions, meditation, and the seven glandular centres lies a much deeper question: How does an eternal soul actually live through a temporary human body? The endocrine series is Cayce's attempt to answer this mystery. Rather than being primarily a study of biology, it is a study of incarnation—the process by which a spiritual being expresses itself through the physical world. According to Cayce, the endocrine system forms the living bridge between spirit, mind, and body, making it possible for the invisible life of the soul to become visible in everyday human experience.

One of the first principles that becomes apparent throughout these readings is that the soul does not directly control the physical body. Cayce never suggests that the soul itself causes the muscles to move, the heart to beat, or the glands to produce hormones. Instead, he describes a beautiful order of communication. God is the source of all life. The soul, which is our eternal individuality, receives life from God. The soul then expresses its purposes and desires through the mind. Cayce repeatedly reminds us that "Mind is the Builder." The mind becomes the bridge between the invisible soul and the visible body. From the mind, impressions are communicated to the endocrine system, where they are translated into physical chemistry. The nervous system then carries these influences throughout the body, enabling the organs to perform their work. In this way, every physical action begins long before the muscles move. It begins with the soul, passes through the mind, is translated by the glands, carried by the nerves, and finally expressed through the body.

A helpful way to understand this relationship is to imagine driving a motor car. You, the driver, are not the steering wheel, the engine, or the tyres, yet you direct the entire vehicle. Your intention moves your hands, your hands turn the steering wheel, the steering wheel changes the direction of the wheels, and the wheels move the car. In much the same way, the soul does not directly operate the liver, the thyroid, or the heart. Instead, it expresses its intentions through the mind. The endocrine glands become something like the steering mechanism of the body, translating invisible spiritual intentions into visible physical activity. The nervous system then distributes these instructions throughout the body so that every organ can respond appropriately.

This understanding also explains why Cayce places such extraordinary importance on the endocrine glands rather than focusing solely on the nervous system. The nerves carry information, but the glands determine the quality of life behind that information. Two people may hear exactly the same words, yet one responds with anger while the other responds with compassion. Their ears and nervous systems received the same message, but their endocrine systems created very different internal conditions. According to Cayce, the glands influence whether we experience fear or courage, peace or anxiety, hope or despair, patience or irritation. They help create the internal environment in which our thoughts and emotions are experienced.

Perhaps the most profound insight in the entire endocrine series is that the soul expresses itself primarily through qualities of being rather than through intellectual ideas alone. The soul chooses love, forgiveness, patience, courage, kindness, humility, and faith. These spiritual qualities are then translated into physical life through the endocrine system. When the soul consistently chooses patience, the glands gradually create a body that becomes increasingly capable of expressing patience. When the soul repeatedly chooses resentment, bitterness, or fear, the glands continually produce the chemistry associated with those attitudes. Emotions, therefore, are not the beginning of the process; they are the first visible physical expression of invisible spiritual choices. What begins within the soul gradually becomes chemistry within the body.

This process is never one-directional. Instead, it forms a continual cycle between soul, mind, glands, body, and experience. The soul holds an ideal. The mind builds thoughts around that ideal. Those thoughts give rise to emotional responses. The emotions stimulate the endocrine glands, altering the body's chemistry. The body then acts within the world and experiences the consequences of those actions. Those experiences become lessons for the soul, which then makes new choices, beginning the cycle once again. Life itself becomes an ongoing conversation between the soul and the body, each continually influencing and educating the other.

Understanding this cycle also explains why meditation occupies such an important place in Cayce's teachings. Meditation is not merely a technique for relaxation or stress reduction. Its deeper purpose is to quiet the constant activity of the personality so that the influence of the soul may become stronger. Imagine a pond whose water has become muddy because it is continually being stirred. As long as the water remains disturbed, the bottom cannot be seen. But when the water becomes perfectly still, it gradually clears, revealing what has always been there. Cayce suggests that the human mind functions in much the same way. Through meditation, the endless movement of worry, fear, desire, and distraction gradually subsides, allowing the soul's guidance to emerge with greater clarity. As this happens, the life force flowing through the glandular centres becomes increasingly harmonised, bringing greater balance to body, mind, and spirit.

Another helpful illustration is to think of the endocrine system as a musical instrument. The soul is like a master musician, while the glands are the instrument through which the music is played. A beautiful violin cannot produce music by itself, and even the greatest musician cannot perform without an instrument. Together they create harmony. If the instrument is damaged or neglected, the music becomes difficult to express. Likewise, if the musician lacks skill, the instrument cannot reveal its full beauty. Spiritual development therefore involves both caring for the body and developing the soul. As the soul matures and the body becomes healthier and more balanced, the music of life becomes clearer, richer, and more beautiful.

This perspective also explains why Cayce repeatedly teaches that love heals. Love is much more than a pleasant emotion. Within his philosophy, love is the organising principle of the entire human system. Love brings harmony to the mind. Harmony brings balance to the endocrine glands. Balanced glands produce healthier chemistry. Healthy chemistry supports stronger organs, clearer thinking, greater emotional stability, and more effective service to others. The soul then finds it easier to express itself through the body. Love therefore becomes not only a spiritual virtue but the very force that organises life itself. Fear produces the opposite effect. It creates contraction, imbalance, and continual activation of the body's survival mechanisms. Over time, the body becomes conditioned by anxiety rather than peace, making it increasingly difficult for the soul to express its higher qualities through the physical instrument.

Perhaps one of the most beautiful ideas in Cayce's teachings is that the soul is continually educating the body. Most people think they are simply living inside a body while trying to survive the circumstances of life. Cayce almost reverses this perspective. The soul has entered the body in order to teach it. Every challenge becomes an opportunity to develop patience. Every disappointment becomes an opportunity to practise forgiveness. Every fear becomes an invitation to develop courage. Every act of kindness strengthens the body's ability to express compassion. The ordinary circumstances of daily life are therefore not obstacles to spiritual growth; they are the very classroom in which spiritual growth takes place.

Yet the relationship works in both directions. While the soul educates the body, the body also educates the soul. Illness can teach humility. Fatigue can teach balance. Pain can awaken compassion for others. Weakness can deepen trust in God. Physical limitations often cultivate spiritual strengths that might never have emerged under easier circumstances. The body is therefore not a prison for the soul but a classroom in which wisdom is gradually learned through lived experience.

When these teachings are applied to everyday life, they become remarkably practical. Rather than beginning each morning by asking, "What do I need to accomplish today?" or "How much work do I have to do?" Cayce's philosophy encourages a different question: What quality of soul do I want to express today? Perhaps the answer is patience. Perhaps it is kindness, courage, joy, forgiveness, or peace. According to Cayce, these are not merely moral ideals. Every time we consciously choose one of these qualities, we educate the mind, influence the endocrine system, reshape the body's chemistry, and gradually make the body a better instrument through which the soul can express itself.

This perspective also transforms the way we respond to difficult situations. Every irritation becomes an opportunity to choose patience instead of anger. Every conflict becomes an opportunity to choose understanding instead of resentment. Every disappointment becomes an opportunity to choose faith instead of discouragement. These choices are not merely ethical decisions; they gradually reshape the body's patterns of thought, emotion, and physiological response. Over time, the body becomes increasingly accustomed to peace rather than stress, love rather than fear, and hope rather than despair.

Ultimately, this may be the deepest message of the entire endocrine series. The soul did not come into the body merely to survive life or to escape from the material world. It came to transform the body into a living instrument through which the character of God may be expressed. Every thought, every emotion, every prayer, every act of love, every moment of meditation, and every choice either refines or clouds that instrument. The purpose of spiritual growth is not to abandon the body but to allow spirit, mind, glands, nerves, and body to become so harmonised that the soul can reveal the Divine more fully through ordinary human life. This, I believe, is the heart of what Cayce meant when he taught that the glandular forces are the channels through which the soul dwells within the body.

When all of Cayce's teachings on the endocrine system are reduced to their simplest practical application, they point to one guiding principle. Begin each day by asking, What quality of soul do I wish to express today? Instead of focusing first on achievement, possessions, or recognition, focus on expressing greater patience, kindness, courage, joy, forgiveness, and peace. Pause before reacting emotionally, remembering that every response strengthens either harmony or discord within both mind and body. Set aside time each day for meditation, not as an escape from life, but as a way of quieting the personality so that the influence of the soul may become clearer. Above all, remember Cayce's recurring principle that "Mind is the Builder." The mind is continually building either harmony or imbalance within the body. The deepest practical lesson of the endocrine readings is that the soul is not trying to escape the body—it is patiently transforming it into an instrument through which love, wisdom, healing, and service may be more fully expressed. In that sense, every interaction, every thought, every emotional response, and every act of selfless service becomes part of the soul's lifelong work of revealing the Divine through everyday human life.

Living as a Soul: A Daily Practice

Understanding Edgar Cayce's teachings about the endocrine system is valuable only if they change the way we live. If we reduce all of these teachings to their simplest daily practice, they become surprisingly straightforward. Rather than beginning each morning by asking, "What do I need to accomplish today?" or "What do I need to buy, achieve, or prove?" Cayce invites us to ask a far more important question: "What quality of soul do I want to express today?"

Perhaps today is an opportunity to express greater patience. Perhaps it is kindness, courage, joy, forgiveness, compassion, humility, or peace. According to Cayce's understanding, these are not merely moral decisions or positive attitudes. Every time we consciously choose one of these spiritual qualities, we begin educating the mind. The mind, in turn, influences the endocrine system, the glands shape the chemistry of the body, and the body gradually becomes a more responsive instrument through which the soul can express itself. Spiritual growth is therefore not something separate from daily life; it is woven into every choice we make.

Another helpful practice is to pause before reacting emotionally. Cayce repeatedly connects our emotional life with the activity of the glandular system, suggesting that the brief moment between an event and our response is spiritually significant. Instead of allowing fear, anger, resentment, or anxiety to take control automatically, we can pause and ask ourselves, "What response best reflects the highest ideal I wish to live?" Every time we choose love instead of fear, forgiveness instead of resentment, or understanding instead of judgment, we are not simply making a better moral choice—we are gradually establishing new patterns within the mind, the endocrine system, and the body itself.

Meditation also becomes an essential part of this daily practice. Its purpose is not to escape from the body or withdraw from life, but to quiet the constant activity of the personality so that the influence of the soul may become clearer. A period of stillness each day, centred upon a spiritual ideal, allows the mind to become receptive to the deeper guidance of the soul. As the mind grows quieter, the entire relationship between body, mind, and spirit becomes more harmonious, allowing the life force to flow more freely through the glandular centres.

Throughout all of these practices, Cayce continually reminds us of one of his most profound principles: "Mind is the Builder." Every thought we entertain, every attitude we cultivate, and every emotional response we encourage is helping to build either harmony or discord within us. The important question, then, is not simply whether our body is healthy, but whether it is becoming an increasingly willing and capable instrument through which the soul can express love, wisdom, patience, courage, and service.

Ultimately, this may be the deepest practical lesson of the endocrine readings. The soul is not trying to escape from the body; it is patiently transforming the body into an instrument through which the Divine may be more perfectly revealed. Every conversation, every challenge, every disappointment, every act of kindness, every prayer, every meditation, and every moment of service contributes to that lifelong work. Day by day, choice by choice, the soul gradually shapes the body into a clearer reflection of God's love.

Seen in this light, every day becomes a spiritual exercise. Every circumstance presents another opportunity to ask, "What quality of soul can I express here?" As that question becomes the guiding principle of life, the body, mind, and spirit begin working together in harmony, fulfilling what Cayce saw as the true purpose of incarnation: allowing the eternal soul to reveal the character of God through ordinary human life.

A.R.E. Meeting for 7/13/26

Leader: Sylvia

Five of us comingled in love, while a sixth had Zoom issues. We continued with the chapter on Love, by reviewing the experiment from last week, and continuing with a Cayce lecture on the topic by John Schroeder.

Experiment: For one week, use a portion of your meditation to focus on the love that God has for you! Try to abide in that love throughout the day. 

The Endocrine System: The Bridge Between Spirit, Mind, and Body

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The endocrine system occupies a unique and central place in the Edgar Cayce readings. Rather than describing it simply as a network of hormone-producing glands, Cayce presents it as the living bridge between spirit, mind, and body. According to the readings, the endocrine system is the means through which the soul expresses itself in the physical world. It is through these glands that spiritual forces influence thoughts, emotions, character, personality, and ultimately the health of the body. While modern medicine studies the glands primarily for their hormonal functions, Cayce expands their role to include the mental and spiritual dimensions of human life. These teachings represent Cayce's spiritual philosophy and are not part of mainstream medical science.

Cayce explains that the endocrine system is so vast and important that it could not be adequately covered in a single discourse. He remarks that "this is the system whereby or in which dispositions, characters, natures and races all have their source." In other words, the endocrine system is not merely responsible for regulating metabolism or physical growth; it is the foundation upon which temperament, personality, emotional tendencies, heredity, and spiritual expression are built. Throughout the readings he repeatedly emphasizes that the body must never be viewed as isolated organs working independently, but as one unified living organism. Every gland influences every other gland, every organ is connected, and every thought or emotion produces changes throughout the entire body. As Cayce states, "the whole anatomical structure must be considered EVER as a whole."

One of the most remarkable themes running throughout the endocrine series is the relationship between emotions and glandular activity. Cayce teaches that every emotional state immediately produces physical changes within the endocrine system. He explains that anger, fear, joy, laughter, hope, sorrow, and love all stimulate different glandular secretions that circulate throughout the body. He states, "There is an activity within the system produced by anger, fear, mirth, joy... that produces through the glandular secretion those activities that flow into the whole of the system." Later he becomes even more specific by saying, "Anger causes poisons to be secreted from the glands. Joy has the opposite effect." Although he identifies the adrenal glands as playing a particularly important role, he insists that every gland is involved. A nursing mother's emotions affect her mammary glands, a pregnant woman's emotional life influences her digestive glands, and the liver, kidneys, thyroid, and other glands all respond to mental attitudes. In Cayce's view, spiritual living is therefore not merely a moral ideal—it literally changes the chemistry of the body.

Perhaps the most profound statement in the entire series is Cayce's declaration that "the glandular forces then are ever akin to the sources from which, through which, the soul dwells within the body." He does not see the glands simply as biological organs that manufacture hormones. Rather, they are physical instruments through which the soul manifests itself in earthly life. Because of this, the glands become closely associated with every process of creation, regeneration, degeneration, and reproduction—not only on the physical level, but also within the mental and spiritual nature of every person. The endocrine system is therefore the mechanism by which the invisible spiritual life expresses itself through visible physical existence.

Throughout these readings Cayce frequently refers to seven major glandular centers that coordinate the activities of the body. Although his terminology differs somewhat from modern anatomy, these centers generally include the reproductive center, the pineal center, the solar plexus or adrenal center, the heart and thymus region, the liver and spleen, the thyroid, and the coordinating brain centers. He compares these seven centers with the Seven Churches described in the Book of Revelation, suggesting that they represent stages of spiritual development within every individual. "Hence we find," he says, "the seven centers, the seven churches, the seven activities." Each glandular center serves as a doorway through which spiritual life enters and transforms physical existence.

Cayce also gives considerable attention to the beginning of life. According to the readings, conception is far more than the joining of two physical cells. He teaches that the first physical movement following conception is associated with what he identifies as the pineal center, which eventually determines not only physical stature but also mental capacity and spiritual potential. From this first center the body gradually develops outward, forming the organs, nervous system, circulation, and all the other glandular centers. In Cayce's description, the body grows according to both physical law and spiritual law, making the embryo a living union of body, mind, and soul from its earliest stages of development.

The readings repeatedly emphasize the profound influence of the mother's mental and emotional life during pregnancy. Cayce teaches that while the unborn child receives its physical nourishment through the mother's body, it also receives continual mental impressions through her thoughts, hopes, fears, attitudes, and emotional experiences. He explains that these impressions gradually become part of the developing child, extending themselves through the growing organism as the body forms. The environment surrounding pregnancy, the parents' ideals, and especially the mother's emotional state all contribute to the development of the child's physical characteristics, mental tendencies, and spiritual opportunities.

Closely connected with this is Cayce's repeated emphasis on purpose at the time of conception. Again and again, when questioned about the factors influencing human development, he returns to a single answer: purpose. He teaches that the attitudes, desires, motives, hopes, and ideals of the parents at conception establish the vibration through which an incoming soul begins its earthly experience. "The end of that physical activity is written in that purpose and desire," he explains. In other words, the spiritual atmosphere surrounding conception influences the developing endocrine system from its very beginning. Physical conception may occur under purely biological circumstances, but Cayce insists that the highest development results when conception is united with spiritual purpose and love.

Although Cayce recognizes heredity and even discusses chromosomes, he consistently teaches that genetics alone cannot explain human development. When asked what ultimately dominates hereditary influences, his answer is simple: "Attitude!" Genes provide possibilities, but the spiritual ideals, mental attitudes, and emotional lives of the parents influence how those possibilities unfold. Heredity, therefore, is not merely physical. It includes mental habits, emotional tendencies, and spiritual influences that work together throughout life. Nevertheless, Cayce never teaches that heredity determines destiny.

Meditation occupies an important place within Cayce's understanding of the endocrine system. He explains that during meditation the life force rises from the reproductive center through the pineal gland and then flows throughout the remaining glandular centers, illuminating and harmonizing them. This movement of spiritual energy coordinates the entire endocrine system, bringing greater balance between body, mind, and spirit. As these centers become harmonized, spiritual understanding increases, physical health improves, and the individual becomes more attuned to the Divine Presence.

Despite all of these influences, Cayce repeatedly insists that the endocrine system never removes human freedom. The glands create tendencies, heredity creates possibilities, and the environment offers opportunities, but every individual still possesses free will. "Choice is left to the individual," he repeatedly declares. A person born with exceptional physical or mental gifts may misuse them, while someone born with apparent limitations may grow into great spiritual strength. The endocrine system influences personality, but it never determines destiny. Every soul remains responsible for the choices it makes throughout life.

Underlying the entire endocrine series is one of Cayce's most famous principles: "Mind is the Builder." Spirit inspires the mind, the mind directs the glands, the glands influence the body, and the body becomes the outward expression of the inner life. Every thought changes emotion, every emotion changes glandular secretions, and those secretions continually shape physical health and personality. In this way the endocrine system becomes the meeting place where spirit, mind, and matter continually interact.

Ultimately, Cayce teaches that the endocrine system exists for a far greater purpose than maintaining biological life. Its highest function is to provide the soul with a living instrument through which the image of God may be expressed on earth. As the glandular centers become harmonized through love, patience, hope, prayer, meditation, and right living, spirit increasingly governs the mind, the mind governs the body, and the whole person reflects the Divine Will. The endocrine system thus becomes the bridge between heaven and earth, allowing the soul to dwell fully within the body and express the life of God through every thought, every emotion, and every action. As Cayce beautifully summarizes, "The glandular forces... are the sources through which the soul dwells within the body."

The Gods of the Universe

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The Gods of the Universe

When Edgar Cayce spoke about the "Gods of the Universe," he was not teaching that there are many supreme gods competing with one another. Instead, he described one Infinite God who governs the universe through many spiritual forces, laws, and intelligent powers. These "gods" are not equal to God. They are expressions of His divine government and are responsible for directing different forces within creation. Above them all stands only one Supreme Being. As Cayce beautifully explains, there is "the God of High Heaven, the ruler over all, the one in all and the all in one." This statement reminds us that no matter how many forces exist throughout the universe, everything ultimately comes from one Divine Source.

One of the clearest explanations appears when Cayce was asked directly what he meant by the "Gods of the Universe." His answer begins with an important principle: "All force has its incentive, the directing or creating of that force." Every force in creation has intelligence behind it. Every power has direction. Every activity follows divine order. Cayce explains that these directing powers have been described throughout history as "the God... of War, as of Peace, as of Water, as of the elements under the Sea... as those above." Ancient civilizations often recognized these governing powers and gave them names, but Cayce explains that they are not separate creators. They are simply the ruling intelligences over different universal forces, while above them all remains "the God of High Heaven, the ruler over all."

This understanding helps explain why so many ancient cultures believed in many gods. The Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Babylonians, and many other civilizations spoke of gods who ruled the sun, the sea, the wind, wisdom, justice, war, harvest, and the heavens. Cayce does not say they imagined these completely out of nothing. Rather, he suggests they were recognizing real governing forces within creation, although many failed to understand that all of these powers existed under the authority of the One Infinite God. The universe is filled with countless expressions of divine intelligence, but there is only one Creator.

Another reading gives an even deeper explanation. Cayce says that throughout human development "there has been set bounds about every force as manifested in the material, the mental, the soul, the spiritual planes." Then he explains, "These bounds are the gods, or guards, of such attainment." This is a remarkable statement because it shows that the "gods" are also guardians. They are the keepers of divine law. They establish the boundaries within which every soul grows and develops. They are not arbitrary rulers who reward or punish according to personal preference. Instead, they faithfully administer God's perfect order. Every level of growth—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual—has its own divine laws, and these guardians ensure that no one bypasses those laws.

Cayce repeatedly teaches that the universe is governed by law rather than by chance. Gravity follows law. Light follows law. Electricity follows law. Growth follows law. Healing follows law. Prayer follows law. Love itself follows eternal law. The "gods" are therefore not separate beings demanding worship but are the intelligent custodians of these universal principles. As humanity grows in understanding, we gradually learn to cooperate with these laws instead of resisting them.

One of the most beautiful statements concerning these higher intelligences appears in Reading 3744-2. Speaking about psychic abilities, Cayce warns that such gifts should never be used selfishly. He says that spiritual knowledge should never become "self-aggrandizement" or serve "the selfish purposes of the physical attributes." Then he gives a remarkable comparison: "The use of psychic force... is only the using of that spiritual law that makes one free, but not freedom to take advantage, no more than that the Gods take advantage of the knowledge of man's weaknesses to use them as means of destructive forces." Even though these higher intelligences understand human weaknesses, they never exploit them. They never misuse their knowledge. They always work within divine justice. Cayce is teaching that humanity should follow the same example. True spiritual power is never used for personal gain but always for service to others.

The readings also explain what Cayce means by "universal forces." He says that "the universal" is "that element through which all becomes manifest in a material world, or a spiritual world." To help us understand, he uses the illustration of light passing through a prism. White light appears to be one simple light, but when it passes through a prism it separates into many beautiful colours. In the same way, the one power of God expresses itself through countless universal forces. Although they appear different, they all originate from the same divine source. As humanity learns "the knowledge of the laws of the universe," these forces become blessings rather than mysteries. Electricity, magnetism, vibration, healing, thought, prayer, and spiritual influence are all examples of universal forces operating according to divine law.

Perhaps the greatest demonstration of these universal laws is found in the life of Jesus Christ. Cayce makes a profound statement when he says, "The greater we find in the life of Jesus, who only used the universal law." This means that Jesus did not suspend God's laws when He healed the sick, calmed the storm, multiplied the loaves, walked on water, or rose from the dead. Instead, He understood those laws perfectly because He lived in complete harmony with the Father. Cayce continues by saying that Jesus "made same manifest in the world," and that He finally overcame "even the disintegration of the spirit and soul from the physical or corporeal body." Christ demonstrated that when a soul becomes completely one with God, all universal laws operate in perfect harmony.

Throughout the readings, one truth remains constant: there is only one Supreme God. The many "gods" are never presented as rivals to God but as servants of His divine purpose. They administer the forces of nature, the laws of growth, and the processes of spiritual development. They act as guardians over the progress of souls and faithfully carry out the will of the Creator. Above every force, every intelligence, every power, and every law stands "the God of High Heaven, the ruler over all, the one in all and the all in one."

For us today, this teaching has a practical meaning. Every thought, every word, and every action either brings us into harmony with these universal laws or places us in conflict with them. Love harmonizes with divine law. Selfishness violates it. Forgiveness restores balance. Pride separates us from God's purpose. Prayer opens us to higher guidance, while meditation quiets the mind so we may hear God's voice. Spiritual growth is therefore not about pleasing many gods, but about learning to live in harmony with the One Infinite God whose wisdom and love govern the entire universe through His eternal laws. As we learn those laws and apply them daily, we become more like Christ, who perfectly revealed the Father's will and demonstrated the fullness of life lived in complete unity with God.

EDGAR CAYCE READING 3744-2

(Q) Should Psychic Readings be used for purposes other than for the assistance of curing human ills?

(A) That knowledge of all universal force that may be obtained through the psychic force is that of man's individual condition to be dealt with. All force that may be obtained from such source, and not used as self-aggrandizement, or for the selfish purposes of the physical attributes, may be, should be, used and given to the world.

The understanding of all laws, for that is the law, the understanding of the law pertaining to any given condition. Then we would give any condition that may be met through such knowledge without the advantage taken of another individual, through its lack of such law or knowledge should be used. The use of psychic force by any individual, is only the using of that spiritual law that makes one free, but not freedom to take advantage, no more than that the Gods take advantage of the knowledge of man's weaknesses to use them as means of destructive forces.

Through man, all law to the physical plane or material plane is made manifest, but the manifestation is of the compliance as made with the law. The knowledge of such gained through psychic force cannot be abused without receiving the same condition under which this puts such a condition upon the individual.

EDGAR CAYCE READING 3744-5

(Q) What is meant by the Gods of the Universe referred to in the readings? [See 3744-2 above]

(A) Just as in this. All force has its incentive, the directing or creating of that force. That force to the human mind apparent, as different conditions, or relations, as referred to as the God, or the ruling force, of that individual force, as is giving the expression, and is referred to as the God, as of War, as of Peace, as of Water, as of the elements under the Sea. As of those above, as the God of High Heaven, the ruler over all, the one in all and the all in one.

EDGAR CAYCE READING 900-17

(Q) As given in readings of body, [900], gods have granted him, or brought him to that point where he may attain knowledge. What is meant by gods?

(A) In this manner and form are gods meant here: In the attaining of development, through the mental, the soul forces, in the earth's plane, there has been set bounds about every force as manifested in the material, the mental, the soul, the spiritual planes. These bounds are the gods, or guards, of such attainment, and conditions, and meant as such in this condition.

(Q) It has been given that the soul is the spiritual force that animates or gives life to the body. What is spirit? What is spiritual force? Is it corporeal or incorporeal? Where may we find the soul force in the body - in the brain, nerve centers or where?

(A) There is a vast deal of difference between spiritual and soul forces, for, as given, each force there has been set guards or bounds. Spirit forces are the animation of ALL LIFE giving life-producing forces in animate or inanimate forces. Spiritual elements become corporeal when we speak of the spiritual body in a spiritual entity; then composed of spirit, soul and the superconsciousness.

In the soul forces, and its dwelling in man, we find the animation, the spiritual element, the soul that developing element, and contained in the brain, in the nerve, in the centers of the whole system. As to the specific centers, nearer those centers of the sensory system, physically speaking.

In the conditions, then, we find when soul and spirit take flight from the animate forces of an human, we find the deadening of all the centers of the sensory system, with the vitality of the solar plexus system, with the gland of the medulla oblongata, these then controlling the forces, and the life becomes extinct, with soul and spirit, with the super-conscious forces, gone.

Then, we have as this:

Spiritual element, the vitality, produces the motive forces of the entity, whether physical or spiritual. Spiritual forces being the life, the reproductive principle; the soul the development principle. As we have manifested, or illustrated, in the physical body in nerve tissue: There becomes that principle of the nerve action and the nerve in action. That is, with the expression of some condition bringing distress in the body, the active principle is the spirit. The nerve is the soul, for development.

(Q) Explain universal forces. Are they forces -

(A) (Mr. Cayce, breaking in:) In this, we find that great indwelling of that force as is given in the bounds about all development, whether mental, soul, or spiritual conditions; the universal being that element through which all becomes manifest in a material world, or a spiritual world. As would be illustrated in the prism separating the elements of light, and showing the active principle of given light or heat in its action, by deflection from the given law, the universal forces are as such. These, we see, become manifest in the material world as the mentality of man develops and gains the knowledge of the laws of the universe, and as man in his mentality gains the knowledge of that law, the deflections become the manifestations of universal laws, and force, manifested through the material world. All such laws, as man develops, will come to the use and benefit of man, there being many illustrations in the present age.

The greater we find in the life of Jesus, who only used the universal law, and in the deflection of same, through the life lived, made same manifest in the world, in the last overcoming even the disintegration of the spirit and soul from the physical or corporeal body, and able to force all law to become subjugated to the body, or, as we see, manifest in the electrical forces as used by man. This becoming only an atom in motion, and as the atomic force gathers this, producing such vibration as to create heat, light, and of the various natures, by the kind, class or nature of resistance met in its passage in the cycle given, reducing, or raising the velocity, or better by the class of atomic force it vibrates, either with or against.

These are ensamples of portions of universal forces.