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Reading 136-63 presents a profound view of soul development as a living process shaped by thought, action, application, and inner alignment. The reading begins with the question:
“All things, thoughts, deeds, actions, are set in Me, according to the application I make of that which is Me, Christlike or earthlike.”
Every soul is constantly becoming something through the way it applies life. The soul is not developed merely by possessing knowledge, beliefs, or spiritual ideas. Rather, the soul develops according to what an individual consistently lives, expresses, and applies in daily experience. Within every person there exists the potential toward the “Christlike” — love, patience, mercy, unity, spiritual awareness, constructive purpose — or toward the “earthlike,” meaning material-mindedness, selfishness, division, fear, pride, resentment, or purely outward living. The direction of soul development depends upon the application the individual makes of life itself.
Cayce immediately answers this through a remarkable statement:
“As a body is builded, so does it think. As a body thinks, so it builds, and so it is.”
This reveals a continuous cycle between consciousness and being. Thoughts shape the individual, yet the individual’s condition also shapes thought. A person gradually becomes what they repeatedly think, feel, dwell upon, and apply. In this way, the soul is not formed in isolated moments but through the steady accumulation of attitudes, reactions, motives, and choices. Cayce says: “Now the explanation, then, becomes a cycle of one making the other…”
Thought influences action, action reinforces thought, and together they slowly construct the soul’s character and consciousness. Soul development therefore occurs in the ordinary experiences of life — through relationships, habits, emotional responses, work, struggles, and daily choices. Every reaction becomes part of the soul’s structure.
The reading emphasizes that application is always individual and personal. Cayce says: “The application of the knowledge that is apparent in each entity’s association with such, is its own application, and becomes individual.”
Two people may hear the same truth, study the same teachings, or experience the same circumstances, yet respond completely differently because each soul has its own level of development, tendencies, and inner condition. Cayce explains: “For each has its own development…”
This means soul growth cannot merely be copied externally from another person. Each soul must consciously work out its own relationship with truth, experience, and spiritual understanding.
Cayce then introduces the beautiful illustration of music to explain the soul’s development. He describes how a musician may possess technical knowledge of an instrument, yet the actual expression of the music changes according to the inner state of the individual:
“In practice of music, with its own variations, this is as of the soul’s inspiration towards the applying of that mechanically necessary to reproduce same on any instrument.”
The soul itself is like the musician. Life becomes the instrument through which consciousness is expressed. Cayce explains that there are “moods, and moods, and moods” affecting how a person expresses themselves. Why? Because thought, condition, environment, emotional states, and inner attitudes all influence expression: “On account of thought, or condition, or of environmental forces in EVERY manner respecting that which is to be expressed.”
This applies spiritually as much as emotionally or mentally. A person may outwardly perform good deeds, yet inwardly act from pride, fear, recognition, or self-interest. Another may do the same outward action from genuine love and service. The soul develops according to the inward consciousness behind the action. Thus Cayce says: “In the same way and manner, then, are such conditions in thought, or in application OF thought to self, as respecting spiritual understanding, or of the earthbound understanding…”
Soul development depends not simply on what is done externally, but on the inner application and motive behind it.
One of the deepest and most mystical sections of the reading comes when Cayce says: “Each and every atom in the human body is a world in itself…”
This presents the human being as a miniature universe. Every cell, atom, and force within the body is affected by the central consciousness of the individual. Cayce continues: “With the grand central forces of self in a perfect onement there is given every effort towards making perfection in every atom of the body.”
The “grand central forces of self” refers to the deeper spiritual consciousness — the soul itself acting as a unifying force within the individual. When the soul is aligned with higher ideals, harmony begins to move throughout the entire being. Thoughts, emotions, attitudes, and spiritual consciousness influence the whole inner structure of life.
However, Cayce warns that destructive influences hinder this harmony: “These becoming hindered by any influence, it either builds or breaks the will of that atomic force…”
This means every influence — every thought, fear, resentment, desire, habit, environment, or emotional pattern — either strengthens or weakens the inner structure of the soul. Love builds the soul. Bitterness weakens it. Peace harmonizes the being. Fear fragments it. Constructive living creates integration, while destructive attitudes create inner division.
Cayce then expands this principle dramatically, saying it is: “As the same as may be applied in an individual life, raised to an Nth degree.”
In other words, the same principles operating within the atoms and cells of the body also operate within the entire life of the soul on a vastly larger scale. The soul becomes ordered or disordered according to what it consistently entertains and applies.
The overall message of the reading is that soul development is a gradual tuning of the whole self toward divine harmony. The Christlike life is not merely belief in doctrine, but the steady application of love, mercy, patience, constructive thought, and spiritual consciousness in ordinary daily living. The soul slowly becomes what it repeatedly practices.
Reading 136-63 teaches that thoughts are living forces, actions are formative powers, and every moment of daily life contributes to the building of the soul. The individual is constantly shaping themselves from within. The soul grows toward wholeness when the “grand central forces” of the self are brought into “perfect onement” with the divine ideal.
READING 136-63
(Q) [900] says: "All things, thoughts, deeds, actions, are set in Me, according to the application I make of that which is Me, Christlike or earthlike." Explain what he means to [900] and me?
(A) In such an explanation there is found just that as has been given, that as a body is builded, so does it think. As a body thinks, so it builds, and so it is.
Now the explanation, then, becomes a cycle of one making the other, see? and the contact with the various conditions, and the application of the knowledge that is apparent in each entity's association with such, is its own application, and becomes individual. And in same thoughts become as deeds, or deeds are the father of thoughts and do not create in each individual the same reaction, for each has its own development, see? and is as may be used as this illustration, or illustrations:
In practice of music, with its own variations, this is as of the soul's inspiration towards the applying of that mechanically necessary to reproduce same on any instrument. And each individual, then, is as a law unto itself, in how it, the individual, is able to make same respond to its own condition. For the entity, or any entity, may find there are moods, and moods, and moods, even respecting applying self to the mechanical end of making music. Why? On account of thought, or condition, or of environmental forces in EVERY manner respecting that which is to be expressed.
In the same way and manner, then, are such conditions in thought, or in application OF thought to self, as respecting spiritual understanding, or of the earthbound understanding, see?
Or, as may be given in THIS as the illustration in same:
Each and every atom in the human body is a world in itself, and with the grand central forces of self in a perfect onement there is given every effort towards making perfection in every atom of the body. These becoming hindered by any influence, it either builds or breaks the will of that atomic force, an is as the same as may be applied in an individual life, raised to an Nth degree. See?
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