The Real Self/Body - Part 2

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READING 1157-1

In giving that interpretation, then, as we find from the records here, first let the entity realize more and more within self that while never sufficient unto self, yet the soul, the spiritual development comes from within. Yet never allow that development, those experiences to become so passive as to separate self from material and mental activity. For such become the more often egoists within themselves, and thus become oft stumblingblocks to themselves.

The astrological (so termed) aspects in the present experience make for those influences that are innate of seeking into the mysteries, not only of life but of nature, of those things that deal with the motivative force, the urges. And the urges within the entity from the very experiences in the earth as well as the sojourns about same make for a seeking of an activity that requires that the entity become, or the entity remain, or the entity be, ACTIVE, positive with self, with those influences about self.

For when fear or doubt arises, it makes for that as becomes the natural effect of turmoil, unrest; yet positive forces in the seeking, positive forces in the acting become as harmonious to the entity.

The urges from the sojourns on Venus make for the natural, innate love of beauty in the entity, in EVERY form. That as may be expressed or manifested even in the lowly beetle, that as may be manifested or expressed in a sunshine, in nature, in the song of the bird, in the activity of illumined souls, in the expression of love as manifests through a mother. These with their kindred associations of all natures are urges that swell within the innate forces of the entity, seeking, seeking to find expression.

And with those influences in Jupiter they make for the manners in which they innate may have their effect, these very seekings, upon the masses.

So oft in the experience of the entity has there come a word here, a word there, that something said or done by the entity - in what might be termed an unthoughted way or manner - has influenced the activities of individuals.

Thus as it has been given, it is to all in their own experience, in their own development in the material things as related to that in the expression of materiality as from out the spiritual motivative forces, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little. Or as He gave, "a little leaven that leaveneth the whole lump."

More and more then may it be seen by these very urges how ACTIVE become the experiences, the life, the whole influence about the entity. While necessary as in this experience of every soul to turn aside at times for the quietness of nature, for the influences that come from listening, even with the thought and mind of nature's manifestations; yet those urges that arise from same must find their impulse from the soul within. Yet the entity's activities, the entity's associations must be ever among large groups, those where there are activities even of every nature.

Yet so clothe self with the beauties of those things expressed in nature, those things expressed in the more uplifting moments of individual activity, as to keep that peace, that balance, that makes for the realization that even though there be not fame or even fortune, those that LOVE the Lord, that keep His ways, find that peace which passeth understanding. Not as the world gives peace but rather as the Prince of Peace gave, "Ye that abide in me shall KNOW the truth and the truth shall indeed make ye FREE" from those turmoils, those strifes that make men afraid.

From those influences in Saturn we find the changes of very decided natures; influences when snap judgements, as it were, expressed in a material way have brought material changes in the experience of the entity to such measures that when THOUGHT was taken it has gradually grown to be revolting to others. Yet let the entity know in what it HAS believed, and DOES believe, that which bringeth the greater illuminations to self for these experiences, though innate. And what one does about the urges is ever as has been given by the teachers of old; there is constantly day by day before each soul the opportunities. And these find a greater expression oft in the experiences of the entity than in most, for the entity is a natural leader, a natural one that STRIKES OUT, but must ever be stayed in those things that have prompted, do prompt those urges. For as ye know, as ye are persuaded within thine inner self, TURN then the more oft. For indeed the body is the temple of the soul. The soul indeed is a portion of the Creative Force that we worship as God.

Then as He has promised to meet thee in the temple of thine self, when those forces or influences would make for material or mental changes, turn within and let those guiding forces of thine INNER self, thine REAL self, as communion with Him, be thy guide.

For He hath not willed that any soul should remain disturbed, but hath prepared those ways, those means whereby each soul may know the truth, may know the Lord. For "When ye call I will hear - and right speedily."

These be the promises, these be the sureties upon which every soul may build its own associations with its fellow man. For "As ye do it unto the least of thy brethren, of His children, ye do it unto thy Maker."

Keep in attune, keep in touch, keep in accord with that which prompts from within.

Though the activities of individuals, though the counsel of many may at times make thee wonder, make thee feel as if not well chosen, but if the Lord is on thy side, who can be against thee?

READING 1157-1 EXPLAINED

First, Reading 1157-1 says spiritual growth comes from within. No one can give it to you from the outside. Teachers can guide. Circumstances can shape. But the actual development of the soul rises from inside the individual. At the same time, it warns against becoming passive or withdrawn. The REAL self is not meant to escape the world. If a person becomes too detached from mental and material activity, they can become self-absorbed, isolated, or spiritually proud. So the REAL self must grow inwardly — but remain active outwardly. That balance is critical.

The reading then describes strong inner “urges.” These are deep motivative forces inside the entity. The REAL self is naturally curious about life, about mysteries, about meaning. There is an innate drive to explore truth, beauty, and the forces behind existence. This is not accidental. It is part of the soul’s pattern. The entity is described as active, positive, and influential. When fear and doubt arise, they create turmoil and unrest. But when the REAL self acts with confidence and positive intention, harmony increases. So fear disrupts the inner alignment; positive action restores it.

There is also a strong love of beauty in this soul — beauty in nature, in art, in living creatures, in human love, in noble character. These are not random preferences. They are expressions of the REAL self seeking outward expression. The soul wants to express what it carries within. Beauty, inspiration, and influence are meant to flow outward into life.

The reading says something important: often a simple word or act from this person has influenced others deeply, even unintentionally. That means the REAL self carries quiet authority. Influence flows naturally when inner alignment is strong. It does not always come from planned effort. Sometimes it happens through simple authenticity.

Then comes an important principle: growth happens “line upon line, here a little, there a little.” The REAL self develops gradually through small daily actions. Just like yeast slowly changes dough, small consistent inner alignment changes everything over time.

The reading emphasizes activity again. The entity must not withdraw permanently into solitude. Yes, quiet reflection is necessary. Listening inwardly is necessary. But what rises from that quiet must move outward into action. The REAL self is not meant to stay hidden. It is meant to express itself in groups, in leadership, in involvement with people. This is an active soul.

However, balance is crucial. Fame and fortune are not the goal. Inner peace is the goal. Real peace does not come from outer recognition. It comes from inner alignment. When the REAL self is aligned with the Creative Force (God), there is a peace that is deeper than circumstances. That peace frees the person from fear and turmoil.

The reading then warns about impulsiveness. Strong personalities can make snap judgments or strong statements that create material consequences. The REAL self must guide those impulses. The person is a natural leader, a natural one who “strikes out,” but that energy must be governed from within. Inner persuasion must guide outward action. When unsure, the instruction is clear: turn within.

This is where the core teaching appears clearly:

The body is the temple of the soul.

The soul is a portion of the Creative Force.

And God meets you in the temple of your own inner self.

So the REAL self is the soul-center where communion with the Creative Force happens. It is not the ego. It is not the personality reacting to fear. It is the deeper guiding intelligence within.

When material or mental disturbances arise, the instruction is not to react outwardly first. The instruction is to turn inward and allow the guiding forces of the INNER self — the REAL self — to direct action.

This suggests that the REAL self is:

• The soul’s conscience

• The inner compass

• The intuitive communion point with God

• The source of calm authority

• The regulator of impulses

• The anchor of peace

The reading reassures that no soul is meant to remain in disturbance. There are always ways prepared for each person to know truth and regain alignment. When you call inwardly, guidance comes. This is not superstition in this framework; it is an inner attunement process.

The REAL self is also relational. The way you treat others reflects your alignment with the Creative Force. Service and kindness are not moral duties only — they are expressions of inner attunement.

Finally, the reading says: stay in tune with what prompts from within. Outer opinions, criticism, or confusion may arise. You may feel misunderstood. But if the Lord — meaning the guiding Creative Force — is aligned with you inwardly, then outer resistance cannot destabilize you.

SUMMARY

The REAL self in this reading is the soul-centered, God-attuned inner identity that:

• Generates spiritual growth from within

• Governs impulses and leadership

• Seeks beauty and truth

• Influences others naturally

• Balances contemplation with action

• Anchors peace beyond circumstances

• Serves as the meeting place between the individual and the Creative Force

It is the deeper self beneath personality and fear.

If you would like, I can next connect this directly to your Christ Pattern framework — because this reading strongly reflects the idea of alignment under pressure and inner authority guiding outward action.

The Real Body - Part 1

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READING 2994-1 (FOCUSING ON THE "REAL BODY")

Resignation to the conditions does not necessarily mean patience on the part of the body. Know, deep within self, that God is not mocked. And while to self in the present these conditions may not appear to be results of thine own self, - whose body is afflicted? Thy body is indeed the temple of the living God. What manner of worship hast gone on, then, in the REAL body? Not the physical being, that at present is hindered by pathological conditions, illnesses, lack of the ability of locomotion, lack of the activity of the organs that function to bring the physical conditions for carrying on, and the ability to reproduce themselves in themselves.

READING 2994-1 EXPLAINED (FOCUSING ON THE "REAL BODY")

When Cayce says, “What manner of worship hast gone on, then, in the REAL body?” he is making a very important distinction. He immediately clarifies that he does not mean the outer physical body that is sick, limited, or struggling with disease. He lists those physical problems — lack of movement, organ weakness, pathological conditions — and then separates them from what he calls the “REAL body.”

So what is the REAL body?

In Cayce’s language, the REAL body is the inner life of the person — the mental, emotional, and spiritual pattern that lives inside the physical structure. It is the unseen atmosphere that the physical body grows out of and responds to. The physical body is the outer expression. The REAL body is the inner pattern that shapes it.

Think of it like this: The physical body is the building.

The REAL body is the blueprint and the electrical system running inside it.

When he says the body is the “temple of the living God,” he is not talking about muscles and bones alone. He is talking about what fills that temple. What thoughts dominate it? What attitudes echo inside it? What emotions circulate through it? What motives shape daily life? That is the REAL body — the living field of consciousness inside the flesh.

So when he asks, “What manner of worship has gone on in the REAL body?” he is really asking:

What has been living inside you?

Have you been feeding fear, resentment, hopelessness, bitterness?

Or have you been cultivating gratitude, purpose, trust, and service?

“Worship” here does not mean church services. It means what you consistently give your attention and energy to. Whatever you focus on becomes the atmosphere of the inner body.

In Cayce’s model, the physical body reflects the inner pattern over time. If the inner life has been filled with discouragement or resistance, the nervous system and organs gradually adapt to that pattern. Not as punishment — but as expression. The REAL body is the organizing force. The physical body is the result.

You could say it this way in modern language:

The REAL body is the integrated field of mind, emotion, will, and spiritual orientation that governs how the nervous system fires, how hormones distribute, how organs function, and how cells rebuild.

It is the deeper level of identity and attitude that shapes physiology.

This is why he says resignation is not patience. You can look calm on the outside while internally being defeated. The REAL body responds to the internal state, not the outer appearance.

So the question he is asking is not, “Why is your body sick?”

The question is, “What has been happening inside your inner temple?”

If the REAL body is filled with despair, conflict, self-condemnation, or loss of purpose, then the physical systems weaken. But if the REAL body becomes aligned with hope, meaning, selfless intention, and trust in Creative Forces, then the physical body may begin to reorganize.

The REAL body is the inner organizing consciousness — the spiritual-mental pattern that lives within and shapes the physical form.

The outer body can be sick.

The REAL body is the one that must change first.

COMPLETE READING OF 2994-1

GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions, also suggestions for help and relief of this body; answering the questions, as I ask them:

EC: Yes - we have the body here, [2994].

Now, while conditions are rather serious, they are long standing, and the condition has become progressive, - we find that, with a great deal of care and patience, and persistence, the body MAY be able to care for itself - and to engage in activities that would be more in keeping with its purposes for its entering this material plane.

First, the attitudes of the body must be considered. While at times there have been hopes, these have gradually faded; and the body has at many times become very antagonistic to all that would pertain to a spiritual or mental attitude that would be helpful.

Resignation to the conditions does not necessarily mean patience on the part of the body. Know, deep within self, that God is not mocked. And while to self in the present these conditions may not appear to be results of thine own self, - whose body is afflicted? Thy body is indeed the temple of the living God. What manner of worship hast gone on, then, in the REAL body? Not the physical being, that at present is hindered by pathological conditions, illnesses, lack of the ability of locomotion, lack of the activity of the organs that function to bring the physical conditions for carrying on, and the ability to reproduce themselves in themselves.

For, each anatomical structure, each atom, each vibration of each organ, must be able to rebuild itself - if there will be the returning of the elements for its recuperation to any extent. There must be created, - in mind, in purpose, in body, - those influences and forces that will resuscitate life itself in each cellular unit of the body.

These activities must begin within self as for a purpose, as for hope, as for desire. Not as boastful, not as egotistical, but that each word, each act, each hope, each element of activity, is to be selfless and unto the glory of Creative Forces, or God.

If this, then, becomes to the body as but sounding brass, forget it!

But know, He IS the Giver of life. He IS life, in thee. And if there is the seeking, if there is the belief, if there is the ACTING - in mind, in body - to SUBDUE the earth, the material disturbances - there may be added many days yet of a USEFUL service in the vineyard of thy Maker, to the glory of thy Brother, the Christ; who gave Himself that ye might have intercession with the Father, through just such circumstances in body and mind as has overtaken thee in the present.

That is the beginning, then; thy attitude.

In the physical, then, we have many changes that are to be wrought. Many of those things that have become dormant are to become active again, through the limbs, through the nerves, through the activities of the organs to coordinate with the life plasm itself that keeps the body-entity alive, that makes the body even aware - not only of its physical disability but of regrets, the feelings of imposition upon the activities and the goodness and the grace and the mercy and the love of those FOR whom the body finds it would like to do, itself.

How, then, may the physical applications be brought about? These will require that there be daily attention, not only to this attitude that has been indicated.

And search ye the scriptures daily. For in them ye have promises that are THINE! In them ye have hope. In them ye have the promise of life, of eternal life, of the water of life, of the bread of life, that makes man free; free here and now - of disease, of disturbance in the various centers of those conditions where the lack of the activity of the liver in itself has taken from the body-forces those influences that will add to the nerve and muscular forces of the body the stamina, the strength.

But these are present in the earth through the application, then, in love, in patience, in persistence, in USING that thou hast daily in hand, and the next step may be given thee.

Begin with these:

Daily - when preparing the body for bed of evening - bathe thoroughly, especially along the spine, with quite warm water; not to blister nor to overheat it, but so as to open the pores of the body-forces along the ganglia of the cerebrospinal system that takes up from that assimilated through the body the life forces themselves.

Then apply packs of Glyco-Thymoline; three or four thicknesses of cotton cloth well saturated with Glyco-Thymoline, of sufficient length to extend along the length of the spine, and especially over the area of the hips. Then over this same area, on top of the Glyco-Thymoline pack, apply packs of salt. Prepare these packs in a pad that may be warmed inside an oven; not too thick with the salt, but sew it in the sack so as to be easily handled and applied so as to become a portion of the body itself. When this is cooled, it may be taken off.

THEN massage the body thoroughly with Pure Peanut Oil, all the body will absorb, into the whole length of the spine, especially across the lumbar and sacral areas, and down the limbs to the toes. Not just daubed on, but gently, patiently, massage this into the muscular forces.

Begin and, daily, eat beets, carrots. Eat these daily. Prepare them in varied forms, and with the beets eat the tops also - well cooked. These may be prepared in various ways and manners, but never take them with vinegar or acetic acid preparations.

Do add the vitamin B and B-complex. Add it, for this body, in the B-1 Complex.

Eat plenty of fish and all sea foods. Do not take it so often for it to become obnoxious to the body, but do take all of these.

After all of this has been kept up - all of it - for some ten weeks, we will give further instructions.

In massaging the spine and across the hips and the limbs, do so with a gentle, circular motion.

And, most of all, keep that attitude indicated. And study the Book - to show thyself approved unto Him.

Pray daily; not for self, but to be used as a channel of manifestation of the mercy of God; that ye may glorify Him - not man, not others, but glorify God as manifested in the Christ.

We are through.

READING 2994-1 EXPLAINED

Reading 2994-1 begins by saying the condition of the body is serious, but it did not happen suddenly. It has been building up for a long time and has slowly become worse. Still, it is not hopeless. With real care, patience, and steady effort, the body may improve enough to live in a way that better fits its purpose in this life. The first thing that must change is not the medicine but the attitude. Over time, hope has faded. Discouragement has grown. There has even been resistance toward spiritual or mental approaches that might help. Simply resigning yourself to being sick is not the same as being patient. Giving up inside is not the same as cooperating with healing. The body is called a temple of the living God, and that means what happens inside—your thoughts, motives, emotions, and choices—matters. “God is not mocked” means that life reflects what we sow. This is not punishment. It is cause and effect. If the inner life has been filled with despair, resentment, or self-pity, that atmosphere affects the body. So healing must begin with a shift inside. There must be renewed purpose, renewed hope, renewed desire to live—not in a proud or ego-driven way, but in a humble way where each word and action is aligned with something higher than self. If spiritual talk becomes empty noise, it will do nothing. But if there is real seeking, real belief, and real action—both in mind and in daily habits—then material disturbances can slowly be subdued.

The reading explains that every cell in the body is designed to rebuild itself. Every organ, every atom, every tiny vibration of tissue depends on proper nourishment and proper circulation to repair and renew. But for that rebuilding to happen, the influences of mind, purpose, and body must support life rather than drain it. In modern terms, the nervous system, belief system, and physical system must cooperate. The liver in particular is mentioned as being sluggish, and when the liver is not working well, the nerves and muscles lose stamina and strength. So the healing plan addresses both attitude and biology. Spiritually, the person is encouraged to study scripture daily—not as a ritual, but as a way of feeding the mind with hope and promise. Prayer is encouraged, not to beg for relief, but to become a channel for something good, to live for a purpose beyond self. That shift alone changes how energy flows through the body.

Physically, there is a very practical routine. Each evening, before bed, the body should be bathed with quite warm water along the spine, not hot enough to burn but warm enough to open the pores and stimulate circulation along the nerve centers of the back. Then a cloth soaked in Glyco-Thymoline should be placed along the spine, especially over the hips, and over that a warmed salt pack should be applied. The warmth and salt help draw congestion and stimulate deeper circulation. After that, the spine and limbs should be massaged gently but thoroughly with pure peanut oil, especially the lower back and sacral area, working the oil into the muscles with steady circular motion rather than just rubbing it on the surface. This is meant to improve circulation, support nerve flow, and strengthen muscular tone. Diet is also important. Daily beets and carrots are recommended, including the beet tops, well cooked and never combined with vinegar. Vitamin B and B-complex, especially B-1, should be added. Fish and seafood should be eaten regularly but not so much that the body rejects it. All of this should be done consistently for ten weeks before expecting further instructions. The key word is consistency.

At its heart, this reading teaches that healing is cooperation. The body cannot simply be fixed from the outside. The inner life must shift toward hope, purpose, and selflessness. The nervous system must be stimulated. The organs must be supported. Nutrients must be supplied. Daily habits must change. And above all, the attitude must align with life instead of resisting it. The message is not harsh but firm: the body can improve if mind, spirit, and physical action begin working together. Pray daily, study what builds hope, treat the body with care, persist patiently, and let every action move toward life rather than defeat. That is the foundation from which recovery may begin.